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Nov
07

First OpenSocial Application Hacked Within 45 Minutes

 

It didn’t take long for someone to hack the first OpenSocial application. In fact, it took just 45 minutes.

A developer who goes by the alias “theharmonyguy” and describes himself as “just an amateur” claims to have compromised the RockYou OpenSocial application on Plaxo called emote (see the Plaxo blog for details on the application). Specifically, he claims to have added a number of emoticons to Plaxo VP Marketing John McCrea’s profile within 45 minutes of it launching.

In an email, McCrea said he added all of the emoticons himself and his account doesn’t appear to be hacked. But when I asked theharmonyguy to hack my Plaxo account he did, within minutes, adding four quick emoticon messages such as “michael arrington is getting my bling on” and “michael arrington is w00t” (see image to left, none of those were added by me).

More information [TechCrunch]


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