Personal
details of about six million people have been accidentally showing by a bug in
Facebook's data records. The bug intended email and telephone numbers were by
mistake public with people that would not otherwise have had access to the
information. So far, there were no facts the data uncovered was being browbeaten
for malicious ends.
The data revelation came about
because of the way that Face book handled contact lists and address books
uploaded to the social network. The bug meant some of the information Face book
generated during that checking process was stored next to the uploaded contact
lists and address books. Security analyst Graham Cluley criticized Facebook's discharge
of the information just before the weekend and supposed the disclosure had been
more about damage limitation than making sure the information reached as wide a
viewers as possible.
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