Facebook glitch let some users see messages meant for other people

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-has-securityprivacy-glitch-as-users-report-receiving-random-messages-meant-for-other-people-2010-2

"A Facebook rep tells us, "During our regular code push earlier this evening,
a bug caused some misrouting to a small number of users for a short period of time.
Our engineers diagnosed the problem moments after it began and are working to get everything back in its rightful place.
While they fix the issue, affected users will not be able to access the site."

Good to know that only a small number of users were affected, but still embarrassing.
This obviously won't be acceptable if Facebook actually has hopes to become an email provider."
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Last week Hotmail had similar issues:
""Microsoft is investigating reports of a limited number of instances in which Windows Live customers
may have access to other customers' accounts when accessing their account through mobile Web browser,"
the company said in a statement Tuesday."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10454741-56.html

Juha-Matti
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