Several weeks ago, X, formerly known as Twitter, announced the implementation of a change aimed at better safeguarding our privacy: the privatization of ‘likes.’ Shortly after this update, however, a security incident occurred that allowed private likes to remain visible to other users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a statement issued by the platform and reported by 9to5Mac<\/a>, this flaw was detected last June, just after the implementation of the new privacy policy. ‘The X team received information that some likes may have remained publicly available,’<\/strong> the company said in an email sent to affected users. Despite efforts to make likes private and reduce unwanted behaviors encouraged by their visibility, such as fear of retaliation or the need to protect public image, this flaw briefly exposed users’ preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How can we know if we have been affected by this incident? X has started notifying users whose accounts may have been compromised<\/strong>. The delivery of notices is still ongoing, but if we do not receive a message from X soon, we can assume that our account was not affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the like counter of any tweet remains visible, only the account that has received the like can see where it comes from. A change that ensures that we can continue customizing our news feed on X privately. It’s a step in the right direction that, although with a brief incident, allows us to use X more personally without compromising our privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several weeks ago, X, formerly known as Twitter, announced the implementation of a change aimed at better safeguarding our privacy: the privatization of ‘likes.’ Shortly after this update, however, a security incident occurred that allowed private likes to remain visible to other users. According to a statement issued by the platform and reported by 9to5Mac, … Continue reading “X (formerly Twitter) reveals a new security flaw: minor, but how do we know if it has affected us?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9262,"featured_media":286107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-286105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312077,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286105\/revisions\/312077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286105"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=286105"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=286105"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=286105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}