New spin to hacking?

With a new application, a bunch of Facebook enthusiasts from Delhi allow you to rotate your pictures on the social networking site. But they also take away your personal details

Recently you must have come across posts from facebook users about a link which allows you to rotate your pictures on the social networking site by 360 degrees. Sounds cool doesn't it? The only problem is the link also allows its writer to access your personal information. These writers are reportedly not hackers but social networking enthusiasts.


Webshot of the application that can be used to hack data of facebook users.

The team of three social networking enthusiasts (name withheld) from Delhi have written a script which on face appears harmless enough but gives control of your profile to them.u00a0

Talking about the script one of the writers told MiD Day, "The background of this script lies almost 3 years ago in orkut where most people lost their accounts' privacy. But soon orkut changed its codes and this script stopped working on it. But we tried it on facebook, termed the world's safest social networking website. We found a loophole."

"Once a user runs this script and we get an email that is secret and unique for every user, we can update the user's status anytime at our will. Even if the user changes his password/login email/username or any other data, this email address remains same.

So a user can literally do nothing except watching the show," he added. These 'activists' claim if certain more features are added to this script, it can really create havoc on facebook. "We have tried to contact facebook by mail quite a few times but we have not got any response," they said.