For nearly two weeks in September, developers who created apps for Facebook were able to access user photos that they should never have. Up to 6.8 million users may have been affected, Facebook says.
Between Sept. 13 and Sept. 25, other photos were available, as well: Photos that a user posted to Marketplace, Facebook's platform for selling or buying goods. Photos posted to Stories, the platform for sharing images that disappear after 24 hours.
Even photos that were never actually posted on Facebook at all, if a user had started to post a photo, then changed their minds, that picture also could be shared with developers. It didn't matter what privacy settings a user had placed on their images or posts.
"We're sorry this happened and we're instructing developers to delete the photos," Facebook says. Facebook users can learn whether their photos were involved.
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