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MySpace Quietly Fixes Bug that Gave Voyeurs Access to Teens Private Photos | Threat Level from Wired.com
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:00 pm EDT, Apr  7, 2009

The bug had been around since at least October Thanks to Rose for tipping me off , during which time it had been gleefully exploited by voyeurs, hackers, entrepreneurs and lechers; you can find pages and pages of public message board comments around the web in which posters are peeking in on 14 and 15-year-old girls and sharing what they find.

Ad-supported web sites with NAMEs like Can t Hide and MySpacePrivateProfile.com emerged to earn a buck off the glitch. One such site reports that its users have accessed, or attempted to access, 77,000 private profiles -- 3,000 of them today.

While all this going on more-or-less in plain sight, you have to wonder where MySpace s safety and security team was. Was this glitch that hard to fix?

Apparently not.

MySpace Quietly Fixes Bug that Gave Voyeurs Access to Teens Private Photos | Threat Level from Wired.com



 
 
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