BTW Twitter, your Tweetdeck bug was a privacy breach... ~ TekSec

No comments Posted in Social Media on April 2, 2012

“A bug in your software has given me access to hundreds of accounts.” — Geoff Evason

Last Friday Techcrunch, C|NET, CNN Money and other tech sites reported that some Tweetdeck users had access to other Tweetdeck user accounts. The issue was first reported on Twitter with a tweet from Geoff Evason: “A bug in your software has given me access to hundreds of accounts.”

Twitter status [short & succinct]

TweetDeck is currently down while we look into an issue. Apologies for the inconvenience.

At the time of this blog post Twitter’s @Tweetdeck remains non-responsive.

The capability to access other Twitter accounts via Tweetdeck without a password does not smack of a mere bug.

The capability to access other Twitter accounts via Tweetdeck without a password does not smack of a mere bug. If we allow social networking sites to continue downplaying privacy breaches as insignificant and incidental – bugs will continue to trump the truth.

Do you think that social networking sites should take more responsibility for privacy breaches and “bugs?”