Facebook Security Chief Blames Bug for 2FA SMS Spam; Fix Coming Soon

Information technology was recently reported that Facebook was spamming users who had registered their mobile number with the two-factor authentication characteristic. Multiple users reportedly received text alerts without even opting in for the service and were bombarded with pesky notifications. Whatever responses to these text messages were posted on the user'south wall on Facebook.

Facebook has now come up with an explanation to pacify the users, revealing that a issues caused the security measure out to send 'not-security-related' letters to the registered phone numbers.

Facebook's Chief Security Officer, Alex Stamos has revealed that a bug was responsible for the notifications sent to users who had registered for the security feature. "Information technology was not our intention to send not-security-related SMS notifications to these telephone numbers, and I am deplorable for any inconvenience these messages might have caused. We are working to ensure that people who sign up for two-cistron authentication won't receive non-security-related notifications from us unless they specifically choose to receive them", he wrote in a mail service.

A set up for the spam notification result is expected to arrive soon, however, a definite release timeline for the solution's rollout has not been revealed.

Facebook Security Chief Blames Bug for 2FA SMS Spam; Fix Coming Soon — Epitome courtesy: NewsMobile

Another issue created past the glitch was that users' replies to the spam texts were automatically posted on their Facebook wall, or in the form of comments on a friend's post. The Facebook executive revealed that this was not a glitch, instead, it'south an quondam feature which lets users post something on their Facebook wall via a text message. But now that the functionality has become 'less useful these days', the visitor is working on 'depreciating' the feature soon.

From the tone of the security chief's postal service, two things are clearly evident. First, the two-cistron authentication feature is hither to stay. And second, Facebook never intended to send non-relevant notifications to users, something which was mentioned twice in the relatively brusque post for an added dash of emphasis.