Facebook Glitch Sends E-Mails to Wrong Users

A coding glitch on Wednesday resulted in several Facebook e-mail messages being re-routed to the wrong recipients, the social networking site said Friday.

"During our regular code push early Wednesday evening, a bug caused some misrouting to a small number of users for a short period of time," a Facebook spokeswoman said in a statement.

The company said that its engineers diagnosed the problems "moments after it began" and have since resolved the problem. While they were fixing the glitch, however, affected users were unable to access their accounts.

Facebook did not disclose how many users were affected.

It was not clear what types of messages were re-routed, or if there were any privacy-related repercussions from the misdirected e-mails. Privacy has been a major topic of discussion at Facebook recently. The site in December in a bid to provide users with more control over who can view their content. But the move also made certain information more open by default, .

This is not the first time Facebook has accidentally made information public. In March 2008, a glitch made it possible for people that members had designated as private.