The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) fined Facebook today 1.65 million Turkish lira ($270,000) for an API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users. . The fine is in relation to a security incident that Facebook disclosed in December 2018. At the time, Facebook said that a bug in the Photo API might have exposed the non-public photos of 6.8 million users to around 1,500 apps built by 876 developers. The link for this article located at ZDNet is no longer available. . A Turkish regulatory authority has fined Facebook due to a 2018 API vulnerability that mistakenly exposed users' private images. Read on for more details. Facebook API Incident, Turkish Data Protection, User Data Exposure, Photo API Bug. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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