Facebook flooded with complaints after messages 'bug'

The Telegraph ^ | 9-24-2012 | Shane Richmond

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However, Facebook denied that there had been a privacy breach and claimed the messages were old public messages that were being reposted because of a bug.

Some users said that messages they had sent privately on the social network between 2007 and 2009 were being republished into their public timelines on the site. Though it was not clear how many people were affected, there were complaints from users in Britain, America and in Europe.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive, was hit by the bug. His profile showed a message to a friend that said "2009 is going to be a huge year".

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For those of you using Facebook....

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Sounds like a Hussein Head campaign ploy, especially the cherry-picked Zuckerberg post.

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Facebook is evil.

From the article:

One Facebook user in London said last night messages from 2006 to 2008 which had been sent to her by other users had appeared on her wall and messages she had sent as private were showing up on her friend’s wall.

She said: “This is worrying. I’m trying to figure out how to fix it. It’s scary. They are private messages and my friends and I used to dicuss private things on facebook.”

This user must be a total dumbass. EXPECT everything you post on Facebook to eventually become public through a bug like this one.