Notorious social network hacker exposes Paris Hilton's Facebook
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A security breach on Facebook allowed a Vancouver computer technician to find photos of a partying Paris Hilton and ones of her younger brother in private online albums intended to be accessible only to their friends.
Byron Ng, who last July cracked the security behind the then-unreleased novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, discovered the security hole when he was checking out an earlier breach that had been fixed by Facebook.
"It's just lazy programming I guess," Ng said of the glitch which allowed surfers to find people based on tags put on photographs.
While Facebook users can control access to their social networking sites, the practice of "tagging," or putting names to photos allowed Ng to access them. After Facebook closed the breach this week, the photos were only accessible if you had the URL.
Based on Ng's findings, The Vancouver Sun was able to access an album of clearly unedited and sometimes red-eyed, poorly lit snapshots tagged as Whitney Hilton - Paris's full name is Paris Whitney Hilton - from an album entitled Emmy Night. From there, it was possible to view the "friends" of Whitney Hilton
Byron Ng, who last July cracked the security behind the then-unreleased novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, discovered the security hole when he was checking out an earlier breach that had been fixed by Facebook.
"It's just lazy programming I guess," Ng said of the glitch which allowed surfers to find people based on tags put on photographs.
While Facebook users can control access to their social networking sites, the practice of "tagging," or putting names to photos allowed Ng to access them. After Facebook closed the breach this week, the photos were only accessible if you had the URL.
Based on Ng's findings, The Vancouver Sun was able to access an album of clearly unedited and sometimes red-eyed, poorly lit snapshots tagged as Whitney Hilton - Paris's full name is Paris Whitney Hilton - from an album entitled Emmy Night. From there, it was possible to view the "friends" of Whitney Hilton
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