AT&T Glitch Grants Access To Strangers' Facebook Accounts
How would you feel if you login to your Facebook account only to see strange friend requests, wall-posts and a different profile picture? This is exactly what happened to a Georgian family when they logged into an unknown Facebook account from their mobile phones and gained full access to private information of others.
According to the AP News report, the security flaw was caused by problems in AT&T’s network equipment which enables connection between the user’s mobile phone and the internet.
Mother Fran, and her two daughters, Mari & Candace, were suspicious about this strange activity when they managed to login to Facebook accounts from their mobile phone without being prompted for user name & password.
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