Shut up and be a good comrade, or you might have a "heart attack," or a "car accident." Or little Suzy won't get her operation.
Posted on 06/22/2013 6:58:09 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc has inadvertently exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers over the past year, the world's largest social networking company disclosed late Friday.
Facebook blamed the data leaks, which began in 2012, on a technical glitch in its massive archive of contact information collected from its 1.1 billion users worldwide. As a result of the glitch, Facebook users who downloaded contact data for their list of friends obtained additional information that they were not supposed to have.
Facebook's security team was alerted to the bug last week and fixed it within 24 hours. But Facebook did not publicly acknowledge the bug until Friday afternoon, when it published an "important message" on its blog explaining the issue.
A Facebook spokesman said the delay was due to company procedure stipulating that regulators and affected users be notified before making a public announcement.
"We currently have no evidence that this bug has been exploited maliciously and we have not received complaints from users or seen anomalous behavior on the tool or site to suggest wrongdoing," Facebook said on its blog.
While the privacy breach was limited, "it's still something we're upset and embarrassed by, and we'll work doubly hard to make sure nothing like this happens again," it added.
The breach follows recent disclosures that several consumer Internet companies turned over troves of user data to a large-scale electronic surveillance program run by U.S. intelligence.
The companies include Facebook, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp, Apple Inc and Yahoo Inc.
The companies, led by Facebook, successfully negotiated with the U.S. government last week to reveal the approximate number of user information requests that each company had received, including secret national security orders.
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lyin' b*st*rds...
Using our good intentions to allow hacking and data mining for not so good intentions.
Not worth it....good riddance.
Technical glitch related to massive amounts of data? Makes you feel good about your electronic medical records, doesn’t it?
Shut up and be a good comrade, or you might have a "heart attack," or a "car accident." Or little Suzy won't get her operation.
Killed my account years ago.
Indeed no names no permits.
... unless you want to count the NSA as "malicious".
Anyone notice you can’t respond to comments anonymously anymore? You must use a facebook/disqus/yahoo/whatever account.
Facebook = PRISM
I knew this the minute my Android phone suddenly had the phone number of everyone on my FB friends list. I certainly didn’t ask, and I know most of them would not have made it public.
I kept getting invited to look at people’s pics they posted on facebook. I never signed up and the people kept emailing me with hurt feelings so I created an account with an email address I never use for anything else. I never posted there and I always had a very bad feeling about the website because everyone is giving constant updates about where they are and what they are doing. It always gave me a creepy feeling. Now more than ever!
anyone who signs up to be a FaceFool ,deserves what they get
Stunning.
That’s quite a glitch!
What everyone should do....is go to Facebook and create fifty bogus accounts each....one for each state. Use fictional names from Murder She Wrote, and use some bogus picture from an Albanian farmer or Bulgarian trampy gal.
Then you send text messages back and forth from the fifty, with the word “jihad” in the middle. With millions of fake accounts....NSA would have to hire tens of thousands quarterly of analysts, and we’d wiped out unemployment in just a year or two.
Same here. Yet another systems “glitch”? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Man does that piss me off! Oh, wait. I don’t do faceybook. oops! Never mind.
hehehehe!
oooooooooooooooooh sorry, it was just a glitch
bull
double bull
liars at Facebook
What’s a “Facebook”?
/s
Why would anyone voluntarily submit all of their lives private
details to a social bulletin board?
How on Earth did we manage to keep in touch with friends and family before FaceBook?
Think, people!
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