The Web or more importantly the social networks that you are so profoundly the members of aren’t all that secure after all, even Facebook. Not that Facebook would sell your information or misuse the rights with secret super password that some of its employees might have. Earlier yesterday CNET reported that a glitch in AT&T causes users to login into someone else’s accounts using their credentials. Bong! And there went all your data, in the most secure platform, or one that claims to be.
The issue wasn’t with Facebook as already said, but with AT&T when users logged in with their credits to the social network on their mobiles. The problem was with handling request of accounts accessibility from the carrier to Facebook. The carrier has quite swiftly fixed the issue and also taken measures in connection with Facebook to prevent any such future occurrences. The first of these being disabling subscriber identification for automatic logon. Michael Coe, AT&T spokesman also highlighted the case of the wrong login and said that it was quite rare for this to happen.
That is just one incident that has been reported albeit a major one. People to fall prey to phishing scams all over Facebook and other social networks, but companies can et away with those and can partially blame users being careless, but such a glitch reveals a lot of loop holes in your architecture and put your credibility at stake. It might have been the first ever or one in a billion case, but this one single issue has at least solidified my stance on the fact that security online isn’t that secure. Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg was right when he said that Privacy is no more a social norm. As of now, AT&T and others need to make sure nothing of the sort happens anytime in the future.
