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Did This Network Flaw Expose Your Facebook Account?

By , About.com Guide   January 16, 2010

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Facebook on a Mobile Phone (London, UK) Several recent incidents suggest the AT&T cellular network may have experienced a routing problem that delivered the Web cookies of some Facebook users to other people's phones. That's the conclusion from an Associated Press piece detailing the experience of a few folks who logged into Facebook only to find themselves inside the account of someone else with full access. Scary? You bet. Impossible? Nope.
More - Network Flaw Causes Scary Web Error (sfgate.com)

Facebook on a Mobile Phone (London, UK) - Photo courtesy Dan Kitwood / Getty Images
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