Facebook bug exposed contact info of 6M users

A security bug on Facebook accidentally exposed the personal information (e-mails or phone numbers) of 6 million users. Facebook announced the discovered bug on Friday, noting that its team fixed it within 24 hours upon being made aware of its existence.

The bug was part of the Download Your Information tool, which lets Facebook users export all the data from profiles, such as posts to their timeline and conversations with friends. People using the tool may have downloaded inadvertently the contact information for people they were somehow connected to.

"For almost all of the email addresses or telephone numbers impacted, each individual email address or telephone number was only included in a download once or twice. This means, in almost all cases, an email address or telephone number was only exposed to one person," Facebook's security team said in a post.

Facebook said that it has no knowledge of the bug being used maliciously, and that it has not received any complaints from users. Affected members will receive an email that provides insight around their contact information that was shared and the number of people it was showed to, the spokesperson said.

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