Facebook archive tool exposed contact info for 6 million users | The Verge
▻http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/21/4453214/facebook-archive-tool-exposed-contact-info-for-6-million-users
Facebook’s software for letting users download their data inadvertently exposed the contact information of 6 million users, the company said today in a post on its security blog. Phone numbers and email addresses that are stored as part of its friend-recommendation algorithms were inadvertently attached to their contacts’ Facebook accounts, so that someone downloading an archive through Facebook’s Download Your Information tool may have received other people’s information.
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