So basically, this is a vulnerability that is currently being overviewd by Facebook right now.
Quote:Facebook, being one of the most securest social-networking website in the world, has another vulnerability that allows you to view hidden Facebook Friends list! It's extremely simple to do this. Irene Abezguaz, a security researcher from the Quotium Seeker Research Center has found a vulnerability on Facebook that allows anyone to see a users' friends list, even when the user has set their information to private.
The exploit is carried out by abusing the “People You May Know” feature on Facebook, which suggests new friends to new Facebook users with very little or no friends. It suggests friends to you based on mutual connections and other criteria such as work or education information.
This hack is very simple. All the hacker would have to do is create a “Fake” Facebook profile and then send a friend request to their target. It doesn't matter if they don’t accept your request, because you could see that person’s friends via the “People You May Know” feature.
Facebook said that a hacker would have no way of knowing if the suggest friends represented a user’s entire list. However, the researcher explained and replied the Facebook, “I could see hundreds of suggestions. So, you know what, it’s not all of them. It’s 80 percent, so what. There’s a reason why I made my friends list private and I don’t want people from the internet just looking at who my friends are.
For now, Facebook hasn't recognized her findings, but they should take privacy seriously, so members don’t have to deal with these issues again.
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