Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Facebook Bug Exposes Users’ Hidden E-mail Addresses

Last night Facebook experienced a hiccup during an update to the site’s code that publicly exposed members’ private e-mail addresses.

The privacy blunder was first discovered by Gawker — which estimates that e-mail addresses were exposed for 30 minutes late Tuesday night — and has been confirmed by Facebook.

A representative from Facebook() explained the glitch in the following statement sent to us via e-mail:

“Last night during Facebook’s regular code push, a bug caused hidden e-mail addresses to be visible briefly. The bug was detected within minutes and corrected." mashable.com

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