The biggest social site Facebook has started sending out warning emails to the account holders whose personal information has been compromised by the security bug uncovered. About six million Facebook users are starting to getting this security message. “When people upload their contact lists or address books to Facebook, we
try to match that data with the contact information of other people on
Facebook in order to generate friend recommendations,” the security team
wrote in a blog post published yesterday. “Because of the bug, some of the information used to make friend recommendations and reduce the number of invitations we send was inadvertently stored in association with people’s contact information as part of their account on Facebook,” the post continued.
“As a result,
if a person went to download an archive of their Facebook account
through our Download Your Information (DYI) tool, they may have been
provided with additional email addresses or telephone numbers for their
contacts or people with whom they have some connection.”
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| part of security message |
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