Security Breach Found In Facebook Groups

A few Facebook users found a loophole within the post via email feature of groups. Luckily, instead of exploiting this, they let Facebook and The Next Web know. Hackers can tweak the "from" field to their victim's email address to post text and photos as a member of a group. Facebook told The Next Web that while it knows about this issue, there's not much it can do.

A few Facebook users found a loophole within the post via email feature of groups. Luckily, instead of exploiting this, they let Facebook and The Next Web know. Hackers can tweak the “from” field to their victim’s email address to post text and photos as a member of a group. Facebook told The Next Web that while it knows about this issue, there’s not much it can do.

This does not apply to every group, only those that have the group email feature enabled.

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