---
id: 8267
title: "Facebook Friends, Your Email Address Isn’t that Private"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/facebook-friends-your-email-address-isnt-that-private/"
published_at: "2013-10-21T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["osint", "privacy", "facebook", "email-harvesting", "social-networks", "contact-import"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8267"
lang: en
---

# Facebook Friends, Your Email Address Isn’t that Private

## Summary

Facebook's email privacy settings give a false sense of control: even when hidden from profiles and timelines, a friend's email can be harvested by importing Facebook contacts into Gmail or Yahoo.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2013-10-21T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/facebook-friends-your-email-address-isnt-that-private/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8267