Facebook Epic Fail... And I Mean Eh-PICK

Symantec has published a report claiming that for several years nearly 100,000 Facebook apps have been leaking access codes belonging to millions of users' profiles.

Symantec's report says that an app security flaw may have given advertisers and other third parties access to Facebook users' profiles, though a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement that there is "no evidence" of this occurring.

Writes Symantec:

We estimate that as of April 2011, close to 100,000 applications were enabling this leakage. We estimate that over the years, hundreds of thousands of applications may have inadvertently leaked millions of access tokens to third parties.

There is no evidence that this happened, but you can bet it has.  Facebook has to get the privacy issue under control or this could lead to the end of their growth.  People love their Facebook chat, but the line of stupidity has been crossed a while back.  This has the potential to be one of the worst leaks ever, in the history of information leaks.  Partly because of the length of time, partly because of the depth of the information that can be harvested from our Facebook profiles.