Facebook has warned their fourteen 1000000 users around the globe almost a software põrnikas which mightiness conduct maintain switched their default sharing to Blue Planet for all novel posts betwixt May xviii to May 27 without their knowledge.
The company's privacy region said the error happened equally they were working on redesigning the display of the user's profile that is inwards world domain.
“We’d similar to apologize for this mistake,” said Erin Egan, Facebook’s caput of privacy.
However, they haven't notified the users who may conduct maintain been affected yesteryear the bug.
"We of late constitute a põrnikas that automatically suggested posting publicly when some people were creating their Facebook posts,” Ms Egan said.
"We conduct maintain fixed this final result as well as starting today nosotros are letting everyone affected know as well as cry for them to review whatever posts they made during that time.
"To locomote clear, this põrnikas did non impact anything people had posted earlier - as well as they could all the same pick out their audience simply equally they ever have. We’d similar to apologize for this mistake."
Those affected yesteryear this põrnikas volition starting fourth dimension receiving a graphical notification soon, as well as a message to review their shared posts during the x days that the põrnikas was active.