Reports have emerged which indicate that Facebook accidentally exposed millions of private email addresses for users during an update for the site’s code; the emails were public for approximately 30 minutes.
“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,” a representative for Facebook commented.
While the mistake was corrected quickly, the move has been criticized as an unacceptable blunder for a site of Facebook’s size. Hopefully the exposed emails went unnoticed, and no grandmas found out that they could find their grandchildren at sexmonkeyjunky@gmail.com or drunk4life@hotmail.com.
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