Facebook leaks users private messages upto four years old

28 September 2012 5:25 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Thought it was safe to message someone privately on Facebook, ever used the phrase private message when describing Facebook?

Well generic cialis think again.

Facebook have I believe ‘inadvertently’ leaked millions of its users ‘private’ messages onto people’s timelines.

The situation was brought too attention from a status that did the rounds saying:

Facebook has publicized your private messages from 2007-2011 and displayed them on your profile as wall posts!! To stop this select each year on the right-hand scroll bar and next to the wall posts for each year hit ‘edit’ and ‘hide from timeline.’

This only deletes messages you’ve received from people – private messages you sent to other people will still show up on their walls, so tell everyone to do the same.

It was believed to have been up for around 3 hours and allowed people to have a good nose around to see what information »

- Luke Temple

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