Photobucket plugs hole that revealed private photo
“Photobucket is aware of the issue and it has been resolved. A fix was rolled out this afternoon, less than 24 hours after the site was made aware of the issue,” a Photobucket representative said in an e-mail.
MySpace and Photobucket are both owned by News Corp.
Many MySpace users use Photobucket to post material on their MySpace pages, he said in an e-mail, adding, “This is a way to find ’some’ private Photobucket albums.”
Photobucket fixed the hole Monday afternoon after being contacted by CNET News in the morning.
Photobucket on Monday fixed a security hole that allowed people to view private photos of strangers.
All that was needed was the user ID of someone with a private album on Photobucket and the file name of one photo in their album, said Byron Ng, a Vancouver, B.C.-based computer technician who exposes security flaws in social networks and other sites.
