A security researcher has found vulnerabilities and a backdoor on a server operated by Facebook. Hundreds of staff passwords were captured by an unknown hacker.
A researcher from a Taiwanese security vendor Devco.re, Orange Tsai scanned the social media giant’s IP address space and found a domain name that he found interesting.
He then discovered the system the domain name – tfbnw.net – ran on a range of servers including a vulnerable version of the Accellion Secure File Transfer application.
Facebook has since patched the server in question.
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