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eminh | 12 years ago

I guess I am part of 6 million since I got a message from Facebook regarding this.

The weird part of it is that email address they say to have been exposed is not even part of my facebook profile.

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kinofcain|12 years ago

Same here, I had three e-mails listed: my personal email I used for Facebook, my @facebook.com email, and a work e-mail that I don't appear to have listed in my profile or settings anywhere and don't recall even giving to Facebook.

Perhaps the "merged" contact information that got leaked included e-mails for you that your acquaintance had that you perhaps never told Facebook about?

EDIT: that would seem to be supported by this line:

"This contact information was provided by other people on Facebook and was not necessarily accurate, but was inadvertently included with the contacts of the person using the DYI tool."

eminh|12 years ago

Yes, indeed, it says so in the blog post, though not in the email itself.

Basically, it means that facebook has more (much more?) information about me, than they show to me in the profile. Not that I am surprised by that.