Salt Security Discovers Flaws in Social Login Mechanism Impacting Thousands of Websites and Exposing Billions of Users to Account Takeover

Today, API security company Salt Security released new threat research from Salt Labs highlighting API security vulnerabilities uncovered in the social sign-in and Open Authentication (OAuth) implementations of multiple online companies, including Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak. The flaws, which have since been remediated, could have allowed for credential leakage and enabled full account takeover (ATO). Salt Labs also […]

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