Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Facebook in Privacy Breach - "Farmville" is one of the top games that distributes users' personal data

According to news of U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal, ten of the most popular site, including gaming company Zynga as "Farmville", "Texas HoldEm Poker" and "FrontirVille" are distributing users' personal data. To get an idea of the amount of data that could have been leaked, "Farmville" alone has 80 million players - a figure achieved in February 2010.

Facebook has confirmed the problem in a report published on its official blog.
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/418

News in full
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558484075236968.html?mod=rss_Technology 

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