Facebook 'shares' Zuckerberg's private images

BANGALORE, INDIA: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was himself made a victim of a privacy breach in his own social networking website.

The glitch, which appeared to have been debugged in a while, granted users access to the Facebook founder's personal images, including those of him with friends, girlfriend, at a Halloween party and some private moments.

"The bug allowed anyone to view a limited number of another user's most recently uploaded photos irrespective of the privacy settings for these photos," said a Facebook statement.

"This was the result of one of our recent code pushes and was live for a limited period of time. Upon discovering the bug, we immediately disabled the system, and will only return functionality once we can confirm the bug has been fixed."

Only a week ago, the US Federal Trade Commission arrived at a settlement with the social networking site that mandated the latter to be more transparent about its privacy policies.

Over the past few years, Facebook has been under the scanner for frequent modifications to its privacy and security features.