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AT&T corrects Mobile Facebook login problems

Sections: Cellular Providers, Communications, Mobile, Web, Web 2.0 / Social Networking

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AT&T corrects Mobile Facebook login problems Just before last weekend started, it was discovered that some people were able to login to others Facebook accounts due to some “routing problem” with AT&T. It seems that at least some users were able to login and view the Facebook account of total strangers. According to AT&T;

“In a limited number of instances, a server software connectivity error resulted in some AT&T wireless customers being logged in to the wrong Facebook account when they accessed Facebook through their mobile phones.”

Kind of scary to think that you could just bring up Facebook.com and be given another persons information, or more accurately, that someone else could have been given your information. All of your listed information including photos, telephone numbers and maybe even an address. Kind of makes you think.

Anyway, as per the fix, it seems that AT&T has added some new security measures to prevent further cases of this happening. According to AT&T, they worked with Facebook to “disable subscriber identification information as an option for automatic log-on, Coe said. The subscriber identification is the session identification number that gets added to the URL”

Via [Gizmodo] and [Yahoo! News]

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2 Comments

  1. way i am not get e/mail

    david
  2. web at at@t is free right my phone right way it is not on

    david

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