Facebook issues data breach notification - may have leaked your email and phone number

Facebook just published a data breach notification on its security blog.
You might not immediately notice that from the title of the article, which announces itself as an "Important Message from Facebook's White Hat Program."

But the social networking giant is, indeed, reporting a data leakage problem.
The silver lining is that the quantity of data wrongly disclosed due to Facebook's bug seems to be modest, at least by the standards of a billion-user service.
The cloud (bad pun intended) is that Facebook's systems made the fault possible in the first place.
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