Facebook Engineer Attempts To Ease Concerns About Email Loophole

Facebook Software Engineer Matt Jones responded to a report on Hacker News about a loophole in emails sent out by the social network that could have allowed anyone who found the content of those emails via Google searches to access users’ accounts without entering passwords.

Facebook Software Engineer Matt Jones responded to a report on Hacker News about a loophole in emails sent out by the social network that could have allowed anyone who found the content of those emails via Google searches to access users’ accounts without entering passwords.

The loophole involved emails about friend requests or friends commenting on status updates, which allow recipients to enter their Facebook accounts without authentication. The Hacker News report added that Google users who discovered the content of these emails also had access to the email addresses associated with the Facebook accounts.

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