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Submission + - Facebook vulneabilty allows personal info theft (quaji.com)

Ronen writes: An interesting new vulnerability in Facebook is demonstrated and discussed. It allows a hacker to steal a Facebook user's full name, profile picture, and list of friends.
While this kind of stuff has surfaced before, what's unique about this attack is it can be done while the user anonymously surfs almost any forum or blog on the net. The hacker does this just by adding a comment or post to the 3rd party site (otherwise not controlled by him/her), that when viewed, sends the info to the hacker.
Full disclosure is not available yet, as the bug is apparently not yet fixed, but it makes for an eye-opening read because who normally feels threatened when reading a forum thread?

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