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Facebook's source code leaked

Filed in archive Newsdesk 2.0 by S.M. Schrama on August 12, 2007

Facebook is very popular. The site is growing fast, companies are linking in (haha) and hackers try to exploit it.

Last week we've learned that facebook found themselves in trouble after advertisers cancelled their contracts because facebook could not control the content of all the pages the ads would show up on. Than there was the hearing of the developer of facebook. And today I read that facebook's sourcecode possibly leaked out.

How did this happen ? There are not many options. Either a developer leaked it or a hacker used some exploit to get it. Alltogheter, I believe that no other site has even been under fire like this one.

Is social networking on it's return ?

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The code was not leaked by a developer or stolen by a hacker; a small portion of the front-end code was inadvertently released briefly, as described in Facebook's statement: "Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single server that was misconfigured and then fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way. The reprinting of this code violates several laws and we ask that people not distribute it further."

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