This article will talk specifically about a Friendster hack and could be applicable also to others.

From Wiki :

Friendster is an Internet social network service. The Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California, United States by Jonathan Abrams in March 2002 and is privately owned. Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends and Web of Friends techniques for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. It currently has more than 70 million members worldwide and is mostly used in Asia.

Friendster was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital in October 2003 with a reported valuation of $53 million.

Friendster (FS) lets you connect with other FS user to build an online community, sending messages, giving testimonials and comments and the interesting one is uploading your photo collections for sharing with your friends.

Do you upload some photos to FS and put some of them as Private ? If yes, please from now on, delete them before sorry !

It’s been a while since FS exploit found by Internet users, but till this article created, I don’t see any actions from FS Team to close the hole. Many ways have been discover in the Internet about sneaking into an FS user photo albums. From using web based application until single desktop application. 

So, for all of FS users, please you’d better remove the private photos from your FS account before it’s too late. Someone who hates you can use this to spread your personal pictures (which you don’t want to share them for public) to the whole world. Unless you do that in order  to get famous to the world…

Moreover even non FS users can do this too as long as you know the victim’s FS ID !

Maybe some of you curious how we could do that ? Well, I will not discuss about the way to do that. Many sites have talked about this, so use your imagination. By the way, it’s not polite and legal to do such action. We must respect other people privacy.

Nothing is really secure in the cyber world !

Beware !