Abuse of Functionality

A woman exploited a bug in QVC shopping network web site to get, without paying, more than 1800 items worth $412,000 items from the March to November 2005. The glitch enabled her to cancel orders she placed at a specific time and still get the product.

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A bug in MySpace allowed a single click on an incoming bulletin by a person to forward it to all his contacts, making spreading a worm (or any content for that matter) too easy.

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• Making money with Myspace bulletin system! [, Jun 16 2006]

An XSS when receiving notification of an incoming IM message. Additionally it is possible to send an IM message to somebody who has blocked such messages by pretending to be answering a message from him.

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• Critical Myspace Vulnerabilities Leave Every Active Account Exploitable [Silent Productions, Dec 5 2005]

A player of an online game discovered that considerable delay hinted on the cards the dealer holds.

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• Online Games Are Written By Humans [Personal , Aug 29 2005]

E-mail addresses of other customers displayed by mistake, no hacking was required

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• Gaffe at Amazon leaves email addresses exposed [CNet, Sep 6 2000]