The social network has acknowledged a bug which has been accessible private contact information up to a total of six million users, so that their e-mail addresses or phone numbers may be accessible to anyone who downloaded the historical their accounts on their own computers.
Given that Facebook has over 1,000 million users can give the impression that a total of six million is not such large numbers by percentage of the total.
According to the statement released by Facebook , "part of the contact information of a person (email address or telephone number) may be accessed by persons having some kind of contact information for the person or some kind of connection with her . " Thus, by using the utility "decargar Your Information" Facebook members received inadvertent phone numbers or email addresses for some of your social network friends and they are, on the other hand , private character.
The bug in question has not been found by the Facebook team but by a third by the hacker program "White Hat" offered a prize to anyone who finds fault on the site, paying a minimum reward of $ 500 per bug. This award is based on the severity and creativity of the bug.
Finally, Facebook says it has no evidence that anyone has had the chance someone may have exploited the bug for malicious, plus they have not received any complaints from users about the fact that they have noted any anomalous activity.