In a recent blog posting, Google acknowledged that a glitch in its Google Docs has affected a small part of its users by exposing private documents. The company said only 0.05 percent of all documents on the website have been affected.

The glitch has also been reported by a user, who complained that suddenly, all collaborators were removed from the collaborator list on a widely shared document.

A Google employee responded, saying that if neither the user, nor one of the collaborators, remember removing people from the document in the last 24 hours, the problem is likely to have been caused by a fix to a bug that affected a small percentage of users who may have shared permissions between documents in their account without knowledge.

“The inadvertent sharing happened only when the document owner, or a collaborator with sharing rights, selected multiple documents and presentations from the documents list and changed sharing permissions,” the Google employee wrote, adding that this issue did not affect spreadsheets.

He also added that they used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the documents in order to fix the glitch. The owners of the impacted documents have also been notified, the Google employee added.

Google apologized for the inconvenience, and said they are taking the matter very seriously. If you haven’t received an e-mail by now, you were probably not among the unlucky few who were affected by this.