Facebook Inc (FB) Flaw Found, Hacker Rewarded for Reporting it

A computer programmer “hacker”, revealed his simple software which allowed him to log into any Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) account and act as the user.

The product security engineer at Indian e-commerce company Flipkart used a common method used by hackers called “brute force” cyber-attack on the popular social media network Facebook. The 1.6 billion users of Facebook were vulnerable for 2 days when the software was at large before the technological company got on top of the situation and rectified the problem.

The whole idea was that as a user loses his password they can then retrieve them by entering either their email address, username or phone number. This allowed them to get access to a six digit code which would be sent to one of the platforms they registered with, of which they can use this number to log in as the password. Facebook tries to stop guessing of the code by hackers or “computer programmers” by repeatedly giving back different combinations of the six digit code and eventually locking the account after number of processes. For the full article click here  

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