Facebook glitch sends out sexy e-mails

Facebook users received hundreds of private messages meant for other people.



February 26, 2010

A glitch on Facebook caused some users to receive hundreds of private messages meant for other people on Wednesday, the social networking site reported Friday.

"During our regular code push yesterday 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," Facebook said in a statement.

"While they fix the issue, affected users will not be able to access the site."

The social networking giant is not revealing how many users were affected, but one unwitting recipient of strangers' private messages was a Wall Street Journal editor.

Editor Zack Seward reported that he received hundreds of wrongly delivered messages within the span of an hour - some notifications for applications he didn't have, and others personal correspondences.

He said he received "one couple's entire explicit chat session."

The glitch comes less than a month after news broke that Facebook will be launching its own e-mail client in an attempt to compete with industry giants like Google's Gmail.

Facebook also came under fire in December when it overhauled its privacy policy, making it harder for users to hide certain information, such as their friends' lists and groups.

Source: QMI Agency