Today, Facebook announced a security bug that compromised the personal account information of six million users. In a blog post, the security team explained that some of the information the site uses to deliver friend recommendations was "inadvertently stored with people's contact information as part of their account on Facebook." The post continues:
We've concluded that approximately 6 million Facebook users had email addresses or telephone numbers shared. There were other email addresses or telephone numbers included in the downloads, but they were not connected to any Facebook users or even names of individuals. For almost all of the email addresses or telephone numbers impacted, each individual email address or telephone number was only included in a download once or twice. This means, in almost all cases, an email address or telephone number was only exposed to one person. Additionally, no other types of personal or financial information were included and only people on Facebook - not developers or advertisers - have access to the DYI tool.
Facebook says it disabled the download-your-information tool to fix the breach. There's obviously more to the story, which you can see for yourself via the source link below.
Filed under: Facebook
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Facebook
Sarah Silbert 22 Jun, 2013
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/21/facebook-security-bug-exposed-6-million-users/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget
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