How a bug almost ate all of your Facebook photos
A researcher found out how to delete anyone’s Facebook pictures but rather than do it, reported the flaw to the company, which patched it and gave him a reward.
Laxman Muthiyah, a Web developer at the Indian movie site Behindwoods, says he used Facebook’s mobile-access client and a developer’s API to eliminate sample albums.
When he told Facebook about it Tuesday, they fixed the problem in about two hours, he says, and told him he was eligible to collect a $12,500 bug bounty.
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