Facebook's latest privacy scandal: The private photos of millions of users were accidentally shared with 1,500 apps
Facebook found a bug that gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of 6.8 million users. Unposted Facebook photos affected include pictures uploaded to Facebook Stories, Facebook Marketplace, and uploaded photos that were never shared. "We're sorry this happened," Facebook said in a statement. Facebook said on Friday in a developer-focused blog post that it had discovered a nasty bug in its photo software. The bug allowed authorized app programmers to access photos that people had uploaded to Facebook but had not publicly shared. There are several different kinds of photos someone might have uploaded but not shared, Facebook explained. Photos shared to Facebook's Marketplace software, or Facebook Stories, are affected by the bug. "For example, if someone uploads a photo to Facebook but doesn't finish posting it - maybe because they've lost reception or walked into a meeting - we store a copy of that photo so...