Apparently, someone found out a security hole on the mobile site for Facebook that makes your email address visible to anyone regardless of your security settings.

I’m sure it’ll get fixed in a jiffy. But it does remind everyone how vulnerable we are when it comes to our data privacy. Maybe it’s time more stringent measures are legislated when it comes to social networks handling user information…

A disturbing security hole has been discovered by a user of the mobile site for Facebook.

No matter what level of privacy you have set on your email address, it is visible on the contacts page (seen on a Windows Mobile device). No word as of yet if it this error can be replicated on phones running other operating systems, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if that were the case.

This is a recent discovery, and shouldn’t be too difficult to rectify once the Facebook security team gets on it. But until the problem is remedied, it’s free-for-all on stalking your exes.

( Source : Mashable )