Facebook and Twitter exposed user data to third-party developers — again

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg And News Corp CEO Robert Thomson Debut Facebook News

On Monday, Facebook and Twitter announced that the data of “hundreds of users” may have been improperly accessed after their accounts were used for logging into Google Play store apps on Android devices. So far, there is no indication that iOS users were affected.

The companies were notified of the vulnerability by third-party security researchers, Twitter said in a blog post disclosing the issue. The researchers discovered that a development kit named One Audience gave outside developers access to personal information, including usernames and email addresses. If someone used their Twitter account to login to these apps, their most recent tweets were also accessible. CNBC said that users of photo editing apps like Giant Square and...

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