Facebook-Application hacked?
Rana Sobhany reports that a Facebook-Application called “Total Sports Fan” was hacked, causing unwanted posts in a forum on Facebook under the name of users which have installed this application.
The Facebook-applications have been under critique for their possibility of infringing data security. Liam Tung and Harald Weiss from Silicon.de in an article from July 2007, quote Ryan Olson from Verisign saying that the applications can be used to spread damaging code.
Joshua Kamper from Fracebookobserver writes:
Concerns raised by group members in the other discussion topics, that the problem is not with the application and is just a Facebook flaw. As one of the members rightly points out “no virus, someone figured out how to edit posts other people made, nothing wrong with the app, just the discussion board”.
