Facebook Revealed Private Email Addresses Last Night

A brief rift in the Facebook privacy shield has been healed, but not before dozens of people documented it. For about 30 minutes late Tuesday, private email addresses were revealed – and then, just as suddenly, they were hidden again.

One tipster documented the breach in real time:

6:46PM: I cannot fucking believe it. Everybody’s email has been turned on to the public for at least the past 30 min. I tried going into my account to remove my email b/c I have an issue with a crazed stalker. But I wasn’t able to. God I fucking hate FB!! When will they ever learn?!

7:14PM: It looks like FB fixed it now. For my account anyway, it’s not longer

showing up to the public. And for about 30 of the other FB users I was

testing this with (who I am not connected to but who I know have their

profiles totally locked down/private), their emails are no longer

public. But some of them still are…

Twitter users noticed the break in email privacy, too:

Facebook has new privacy alterations coming up, but this doesn’t appear to be part of it. Anyone know what happened?