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January 15, 2010

AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error

Filed under: Internet Security — Hostitude @ 7:28 pm

By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP

SAN FRANCISCO — A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information.

The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users.

Read more at Comcast News

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