Facebook Fixes Bug That Deletes Friends
Facebook flaw allows hackers to delete Facebook friends without permission.
By Kara Reeder
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A newly discovered Facebook flaw allows hackers to delete Facebook friends without permission.
This article was originally published on May 24, 2010
According to Computerworld, the flaw was reported by Steven Abbagnaro, a student at Marist College, who has written proof-of-concept code that scrapes publicly available data from users' Facebook pages and then deletes all of a victim's contacts, one by one.
Computerworld reports that Facebook has fixed the problem.
