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"Reports surfaced this week alleging that Yfrog's email-to-upload feature had a security hole that could have been responsible for Rep. Anthony Weiner's alleged \"hack\" in which a lewd photo was sent from his Twitter account to a Seattle College student. Yfrog has since released a statement about that feature, which it recently suspended.\nThe congressman has denied that he posted the photo; it features a clothed crotch shot of an unidentified man. He blames hackers but has not outright denied that it was his picture.\nThe Daily Dot recently pointed out that Yfrog users had the option to email a custom address  to post pictures to Yfrog and Twitter. You could email that address using any email account (without a verification process), which means that if someone had access to that address \u2014 or the wherewithal to figure it out \u2014 that person could post a photo to another user's Twitter stream.\n\nSEE ALSO: Stephen Colbert Uses Twitter To Poke Fun at Weiner Scandal [PICS]\nYfrog recently suspended this feature. A Yfrog blog post from Thursday reminds users of proper email PIN privacy practices and also states: \"At Yfrog, we constantly evaluate our internal security mechanisms across all the facets of our service. Even though our email upload feature has not been compromised or broken into, we are taking this opportunity to evaluate the feature and secure it even further.\"\nIt seems Yfrog is saying that it was not responsible for the \"hack\" of Weiner's account. The congressman has stated that his office is conducting an investigation using an outside firm to discover the origin on the pic."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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