Social Networks Logging Into Wrong Account

I have pretty tight controls over my network and access to my 450 username and password profiles.
Yes he simply said “450”…and counting. I have full administrative rights over each PC and no one else has access to my home or office.
Therefore it came as a amaze to me after I log into my FriendFeed account to create an modification and I revealed I was logged into someone-else’s account.
Serious, no trick, I’m not dim. I had FULL access.
The account is owned by Canadian who sells some stuff. There are 3 feeds returning into the account all being sent from Ping.fm.
I used to be ready to access the complete control panel and change the picture, email related and add or delete feeds.
The dashboard provided me with the prevailing email address of its owner, and in fact I emailed him to let him grasp of my access.
However in fact he hasn’t responded. I’m in all probability in an exceedingly spam folder.
My initial thoughts were that I have spyware and someone is in a position to remotely access my computer and use it as their own. I did a full system scan and there is nothing on my machine.
There is no other strange activity happening so I’ve narrowed the problem down to the present one account.
Meanwhile ABCNews.com reports that a Georgia mother and her 2 daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in an exceedingly startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information.
The glitch - the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T - revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on the Internet, not just Facebook users.
In every case, the Web lost track of who was who, putting the women into the wrong accounts. It doesn’t appear the users might have done anything to stop it.
The matter adds a dimension to researchers’ warnings that there are many ways in which online information - from mundane information to dark secrets - can go awry.
Several security specialists said that they had not heard of a case like this, in which the wrong person was shown a Web page whose user name and password had been entered by somebody else.
It’s not clear whether such episodes are rare or simply not reported. However experts said such flaws could occur on e-mail services, for instance, and that something similar might happen on a PC, not just a phone.
If this is what’s happening to me then it will happen to anyone. There's a logical explanation for this, and I don’t have it. If somebody does, please chime in.
Like there aren’t enough security issues we tend to now have to accommodate hiccups on the internet that log us into someone else’s account because of switching errors.
At least if it had been an outbreak we may purpose a finger at someone. However now, based on what’s happening here, we have a tendency to can only point the finger at the “Internet” as a culprit.
This is freaking me out.

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