Saturday 22 June 2013

Bug gets info of 6M users from FB

                        Another bug was reported in facebook today. The social media company said on friday that "A bug in its system caused 6M users' contact information to be exposed which included email addresses and phone numbers to be acessed by other users who either had some contact info about the person or some connection to them. Facebook said that the cause of the bug was 'pretty technical'. They also mentioned that the problem is fixed and are notifying affected users via email. The affected account are just a fraction of the over 1Billion users on the social networking site. Facebook, headquatered at california said it had no evidence that the bug was used maliciously and it had not received any complaints

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