Facebook Fixes Bug That Allowed Users To Gain Control Of Other Users’ Accounts Via SMS

Facebook’s white hat program dished out another reward, as U.K.-based application security engineer Jack Whitton received $20,000 for alerting the social network about a bug that allowed him to take over other users’ Facebook accounts via text message.

Facebook’s white hat program dished out another reward, as U.K.-based application security engineer Jack Whitton received $20,000 for alerting the social network about a bug that allowed him to take over other users’ Facebook accounts via text message.

Mashable reported on Whitton’s reward from Facebook, saying that the engineer discovered that he could trick the social network into sending him password reset codes for other users’ accounts if those accounts were linked to their mobile phone numbers.

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