Facebook said on Wednesday evening is to be realized that the email addresses of the contacts of a portion of its users have been downloaded accidentally from the social network since may of 2016 at the time of the creation of an account by these users.
About 1.5 million users would be affected by this computer error, said the american group to Reuters in a press release, stating that these data have not been shared with third parties, and it proceeded to delete them from its servers. The affected users will be notified, added Facebook.
A little earlier, Business Insider reported that the social network had downloaded the email addresses of the contacts of users without the consent of the latter, at the time of the creation of an account.
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