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- Leakage of information
This problem may take on a variety of forms including loss of confidentiality, loss of anonymity (when it is a security requirement) and also misappropriation of messages or data records when some network user other than the intended recipient, receives a message or accesses a database by unauthorized means.
The latter can lead to cases of masquerade, misuse of legal user credentials, or an incorrectly functioning network component.
All are dependent on existing vulnerabilities to authorization threats of social networking sites over which we, as users or as developers of another site, have no control.
Threats can come from users or programs targeting messages in a communication system or data in databases.
