Facebook announced on Friday that it had discovered a bug that allowed outsiders access to private photos, potentially affecting some 6.8 million people who use the service.
“We have fixed the issue but, because of this bug, some third-party apps may have had access to a broader set of photos than usual,” Tomer Bar, an engineering director at the company, said in a blog post.

The announcement is the latest in a string of problems the social network has had with consumer data. In March, The New York Times reported that Cambridge Analytica, a third-party firm, harvested the data of Facebook users without their express knowledge or consent. And in September, a separate, more serious breach gave hackers full access to the Facebook accounts of tens of millions of users.

Facebook has pledged to better protect user information. “If we can’t, then we don’t deserve to serve you,” Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, said in a note to users this year.

This most recent incident is somewhat less severe than previous ones. Around 1,500 third-party apps had access to users’ uploaded photos — even if they had not posted them publicly to Facebook — from Sept. 13 to Sept. 25.

But it is still another headache for Facebook, which has faced intensifying scrutiny from regulators and the public after a year of embarrassing failures protecting customer data.

“We’re sorry this happened,” Mr. Bar added.
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Did they use sniper to fix the bug?