AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error

“A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook
from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place:
strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private
information.

“The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family’s
wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw
with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not
just Facebook users.

“In each case, the Internet lost track of who was who, putting
the women into the wrong accounts. It doesn’t appear the users
could have done anything to stop it. The problem adds a dimension
to researchers’ warnings that there are many ways online
information — from mundane data to dark secrets — can go
awry.”

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