Facebook Tip: Enable Encryption to Avoid Privacy Glitch
Yet another reason to take extra precautions while browsing Facebook arose today as reports surfaced that traffic destined for Facebook from AT&T's servers took a misguided loop through China and South Korea this week.
Generally, data from AT&T customers go directly to Facebook's network provider, but due to a routing mistake, traffic first went through China Telecom followed by SK Broadband in South Korea before routing to Facebook, IDG News Service reported. This means that if you were among the customers affected and you did not have encryption enabled, it's possible that network operators in China and South Korea could see your Facebook data.
Such data possibly includes session ID information, personal information, e-mail, photos, chat conversations and an idea of who a person knows via their Facebook profile, the IDG News Service report stated. Security experts do say that it is unlikely that those countries did anything with the data, however.
