Facebook users able to access others’ private information...
Office workers logging into Facebook on Tuesday morning were shocked to discover they were being served up other user's private pages.
Information going astray included other user's message inboxes. Fortunately more sensitive information - such as users' contact details - remained off limits to all but a member's friends. At various times, the front page of Facebook has displayed:
* Your account is temporarily unavailable.
* Facebook is upgrading.
* Facebook is temporarily unavailable. We're working on it…
Statement from Facebook: "This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today. This was not the result of a security breach. Specifically, the bug caused some third party proxy servers to cache otherwise inaccessible content. The result was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them. The site has now been restored and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."
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