AP Exclusive: Network flaw causes scary Web error
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Sawyer logged off and asked her sister  Mari  31  her partner in a dessert catering company  and their mother  Fran  57  to see whether they had the same problem on their phones.
 Generally Web sites and computers are compromised from within. A hacker can get a Web page or computers to run programming code that they shouldn't. But in this case  it was a security gap between the phone and the Web site that exposed strangers' Facebook pages to the Sawyers. Misconfigured equipment  poorly written network software or other technical errors could have caused AT
T to fumble the information flowing from the Sawyers' phones to Facebook and back.
T could confirm only that the problem occurred on one of the Sawyers' phones  possibly because they had logged off Facebook on the other two before reporting the incident.
 It's unclear how many people were affected by the problem the Sawyers discovered  and whether it was limited to Facebook.
 Usually that means a Web site simply won't load  said Alberto Solino  director of security consulting services for Core Security Technologies. In the Sawyers' case  "somehow they got the wrong user but they could keep using that account for a long period of time. That's what's strange " he said.
 The AP tried to contact two of the people whose Facebook pages were exposed to the Sawyers  but the calls and e-mails were not returned. It's unclear whether they are also AT
[TGT] logged off and asked [TGT] sister  Mari  31  her partner in a dessert catering company  and their mother  Fran  57  to see whether they had the same problem on their phones.
 Generally Web sites and computers are compromised from within. A hacker can get a Web page or computers to run programming code that they shouldn't. But in this case  it was a security gap between the phone and the Web site that exposed strangers' Facebook pages to [TGT]. Misconfigured equipment  poorly written network software or other technical errors could have caused AT
T to fumble the information flowing from [TGT] phones to Facebook and back.
T could confirm only that the problem occurred on one of [TGT] phones  possibly because they had logged off Facebook on the other two before reporting the incident.
 It's unclear how many people were affected by the problem [TGT] discovered  and whether [TGT] was limited to Facebook.
 Usually that means a Web site simply won't load  said Alberto Solino  director of security consulting services for Core Security Technologies. In [TGT] case  "somehow they got the wrong user but they could keep using that account for a long period of time. That's what's strange " he said.
 The AP tried to contact two of the people whose Facebook pages were exposed to [TGT]but the calls and e-mails were not returned. It's unclear whether they are also AT