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December 5, 2007
Facebook Dumping + Flickr Hacking = Worry 
There's a troubling story going around right now about
1- A girl who dumped her boyfriend on facebook
2- Publicized it on Digg
3- Had her Flickr account 'hacked'
Everyone is reporting this story, and its flying around faster than 2Girls1Cup - yet no one is asking a simple, important, question - how was her Flickr account hacked?
Was this some sort of password guessing? Was there a man-in-the-middle attack? Or does Flickr/Yahoo have some sort of vulnerability. Flickr is the #2 photo sharing site in English speaking countries ( According to Alexa it is #19, Fotolog is 14), and the #1 photo site in the United States.
This is a pretty high-profile story right now -- why isn't there a security announcement from Flickr/Yahoo saying the user's password was compromised and it wasn't their fault. Or was it?
Posted by Jonathan at December 5, 2007 6:12 PM
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