Facebook Corrects Bug That Exposed Email Addresses, Phone Numbers Of Some 6M Users

The good news: The Facebook Security team snuffed out a bug that exposed some 6 million Facebook users’ email addresses and phone numbers. The bad news: The bug was active for about one year before being discovered and dealt with.

The good news: The Facebook Security team snuffed out a bug that exposed some 6 million Facebook users’ email addresses and phone numbers. The bad news: The bug was active for about one year before being discovered and dealt with.

Facebook posted the following note on the Facebook Security page Friday:

At Facebook, we take people’s privacy seriously, and we strive to protect people’s information to the very best of our ability. We implement many safeguards, hire the brightest engineers, and train them to ensure that we have only high-quality code behind the scenes of your Facebook experiences.

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