How to know if someone has accessed your Facebook photos with the latest security breach

There are companies that will end the year celebrating that in 2018 they have grown or improved their service. After so much scandal this year, Facebook is not among them, and is that a few days ago came to light the nth security hole, which exposed the photos of 6.8 million users.



The good news is that they were not shared publicly, but only with the developers of applications to which the user had given permission. The bad, that the developers of Facebook do not have to be trusted (or the network itself, at this point), and may have acted on behalf of their own interests, and consequently, to the detriment of the privacy of users.

Facebook has launched a statement where, in addition to reporting that the photos published in the biography and Facebook Stories were accessible between September 13 and 25, 2018 due to an API error, it also provides a tool to know what applications have had access to your other photos.

If you open the web without being authenticated in the service, you have to log in. The website itself asks you to check if the photos on your account have been affected by the problem.

If you have already logged in and your account does not present any problems, the message that appears is the one in the following image. In this case you will not be one of the 6.8 million users and you will not have to worry about anything.
Facebook Gap Message indicating that no developer has had access to your photos.

Otherwise, and despite the fact that Facebook has already asked the developers to remove the photos they could have accessed, the company recommends that you log in to the applications with which you have shared photos, to see which ones you have had access to.

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