'Leaked' Facebook Close Feature New Year Message

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San Francisco - The troubled, New Year's Eve features messaging on Facebook also had closed. Application to send New Year's greetings known 'leaky', so should private message can be read by other users.
 facebook immediately disable the feature temporarily, after Jack Jenkins, a student at Aberystwyth University, UK, reported this dangerous gap.

In addition to reporting to Facebook, Jenkins also wrote on his personal blog. He said he was surprised to learn that he could see private messages and photos that other people have sent someone to other Facebook users.

"I just wanted to share about it. How classmate site Facebook can still take a risk like this," he wrote.

Jenkins said he discovered this vulnerability by accident while fiddling idly confirmation page URL in the Facebook application. "Surprisingly, when these vulnerabilities are simple," he added.

Initially, Facebook released this application to facilitate users to be able to congratulate the New Year right at 00.00. Shortly after the gap was found, Facebook directly fix to immediately reactivate the feature.