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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (3) Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read WikiLeaks' Assange gets Australian peace prize 10 May 2011 Facebook may have leaked your personal information: Symantec 12:46am EDT Man jumps to death off world's tallest tower in Dubai 10 May 2011 Mississippi River crests near record at Memphis | 10 May 2011 U.S. warned Pakistan it would come to get bin Laden 10 May 2011 Discussed 144 Obama at U.S. base to pay tribute to bin Laden mission 124 Boehner demands trillion-dollar cuts in debt deal 88 Son says bin Laden sea burial demeans family: report Watched Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5 bln Tue, May 10 2011 U.S. and China find common ground on currency Tue, May 10 2011 Japan refugees make brief trip home Tue, May 10 2011 Facebook may have leaked your personal information: Symantec Tweet Share this (Reuters) - Facebook users' personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years, Symantec Corp said in its official blog. Third-parties would have had access to personal... Email Print Related News LinkedIn IPO price hints at social media caution Mon, May 9 2011 RPT-IPO VIEW-Could Renren be vulnerable in a Chinese crackdown? Fri, May 6 2011 Sony CEO apologises for data theft; shares fall 2 pct Fri, May 6 2011 AOL display advertising improves, shares jump Wed, May 4 2011 Sony's Stringer under fire as 25 mln more accounts hacked Tue, May 3 2011 Analysis & Opinion Tech wrap: Microsoft’s Skype deal roasted How being public eases acquisitions Related Topics Technology » Media » Facebook » Stocks A Facebook page is displayed on a computer screen in Brussels April 21, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Thierry Roge Wed May 11, 2011 12:46am EDT (Reuters) - Facebook users' personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years, Symantec Corp said in its official blog. Third-parties would have had access to personal information such as profiles, photographs and chat, and could have had the ability to post messages, the security software maker said. "We estimate that as of April 2011, close to 100,000 applications were enabling this leakage," the blog post said. " ... Over the years, hundreds of thousands of applications may have inadvertently leaked millions of access tokens to third parties," posing a security threat, the blog post said. The third-parties may not have realized their ability to access the information, it said. Facebook, the world's largest social networking website, was notified of this issue and confirmed the leakage, the blog post said. It said Facebook has taken steps to resolve the issue. "Unfortunately, their (Symantec's) resulting report has a few inaccuracies. Specifically, we have conducted a thorough investigation which revealed no evidence of this issue resulting in a user's private information being shared with unauthorized third parties," Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich said in a statement. Lucich said the report also ignores the contractual obligations of advertisers and developers which prohibit them from obtaining or sharing user information in a way that "violates our policies." She also confirmed that the company removed the outdated API (Application Programing Interface) referred to in Symantec's report. Facebook has more than 500 million users and is challenging Google Inc and Yahoo Inc for users' time online and for advertising dollars. (Reporting by Thyagaraju Adinarayan and Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Bernard Orr and Anshuman Daga) Technology Media Facebook Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (3) KS2Problema wrote: Facebook is like a poltergeist house… stuff happens with no explanation. I recently got a message *from* Facebook telling me one of my friends had “recommended” I friend someone we both knew who was already on her friend list — but it seemed extraordinarily out of character for my friend. Sure enough, when I checked with her she said, “I absolutely did nothing of the kind, though she’s a nice person.” And, then, of course there are all the malware apps that send message blasts out from the poor slobs who get ‘infected’ in ways they often don’t know to all their friends, typically engendering a blast of apologies from the infected party apologizing for the malware blast. FB is not without its charms — and obviously a huge number of people have adopted it instead of using email (no doubt because their own email accounts are probably so polluted by spam and malware they’ve stumbled into or been infected with by similarly clueless but guileless friends). May 10, 2011 9:31pm EDT -- Report as abuse JamVee wrote: Just one more in an ever growing list of reasons to quit FB. May 10, 2011 9:52pm EDT -- Report as abuse peepopper wrote: I guess I don’t understand. Are people putting personal and private information that they don’t want shared on the world wide web? Are the advertisers going to log into my facebook account and update my status? I better change my password, before they see all the photos I have on facebook that I don’t want other people seeing. I have this one picture on facebook of me eating a cocunut cream cake in my underwear… oh, and the picture of my cat wearing a 3 peice suit and top hat, that’s MINE! don’t look at it! 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