Saturday, June 22, 2019

The US government has leaked the names of child abuse victims by failing to hide Facebook account IDs in court documents

The US government has been inadvertently revealing the names of child abuse victims by failing to conceal their Facebook account IDs.

The ID numbers for Facebook accounts belonging to minors have been publicly available in unsealed federal court documents, Forbes reports. Forbes was able to take these ID numbers — used along with initials to identify the victims in child abuse documents — and plug each one into a web address after "facebook.com/" to easily find out the identities of the minors.

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