In what could be the latest privacy goof up faced by Facebook, the most popular social media website on Thursday said, it may have “unintentionally uploaded” email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016.
“We estimate that up to 1.5 million people’s email contacts may have been uploaded. These contacts were not shared with anyone and we are deleting them,” Facebook told Reuters. It further said that users whose contacts were imported will be notified.
In March, the tech giant had stopped offering email password verification for the first time signing up users, the company said. There were cases in which email contacts were uploaded to the website when they created their account, the company told the news agency.
Facebook has been facing a number of privacy-related issues over the last few months. Earlier, a glitch exposed passwords to its employees of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems.
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