The social media giant has been informed by a software engineer of a weak source in the security domain which easily led him to have access to the personal information of users.
Facebook has recently been accused of having a weak source on its network which led a software engineer to easily hack into the system and extract personal information of the users quite easily, which has raised quite a lot of questions of analysts and investors yet again. This is not the first time that such a situation is being faced by the social media network as this is something that it has also experienced in the past.
The firm has time and again been under the pressure to fix its security loopholes as it carries massive data of users that needs to be kept confidential. However, despite all the scandals, the firm has managed to yet again find itself in a troubling position since a mere software engineer has found his way easily inside the data base of the company that should have otherwise been kept hidden from everyone.
The issue in the security domain that was identified by Reza Moaiandin, the software engineer, is a very important defect that is now coming down on Facebook. According to a report by The Guardian, it was stated that the engineer managed to point out the problem in the domain of the media company alone without anybody’s help, which either shows that he was very smart to do or the firm was just careless about the security of its users.
The hack that was carried out by Reza made a whole lot of personal information of users accessible for him, which includes pictures, personal details and also the locations that the individuals were tagged in. The thing that has shocked the analysts is that fact the social media network is one of the biggest sites in the internet world which gives it very less space to actually get away with such a flaw.
The software engineer has actually carried out the hack through the mobile phone numbers that the people give to the social media giant. All the profiles and data that were made accessible through the hack were of those people only who had made their phone numbers available on the media site for their friends to find them easily.
Cyber security experts have emerged to be of the opinion that loopholes such as those provide a wide chance to hackers to easily extract important information of users and use it in an entirely wrong manner and also sell it to earn black money. This time, however, Moaiandin has decided to make the flaw public so that the media firm will work out the security issue in the best possible way which will make it difficult for the hackers to have access to any information on the media platform illegally.
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