How about this for rotten timing. Privacy is in the headlines and Facebook had to fess up to a privacy breach. Tonight, the social network reported that it discovered a programming bug that exposed 6 million users' email addresses and telephone numbers.
The culprit: Facebook's "download your information" tool which may have provided contact information from users' accounts.
Facebook came clean in a security note issued 4:50 p.m. PT. The company said it immediately disabled the DYI tool, notified regulators in the U.S.,
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