Facebook confirms researcher exploited privacy settings to quickly collect user phone numbers
Found on The Next Web on Thursday, 11 October 2012
On Friday, a researcher by the name of Suriya Prakash claimed that the majority of phone numbers on Facebook are not safe.
Suriya decide to write a simple script that read and saved the user names for a range of generated phone numbers. Facebook of course limits the number of times you can search on the site, but Suriya claims he bypassed this all by simply using the mobile site, which he argues doesn’t do this (Facebook says otherwise).
Every time I read about privacy issues at Facebook, I wonder what people expect. Clearly, the biggest privacy issue is Facebook itself.