A more apt comparison would be to accidentally reveal a hidden feature of your application to the public.

It's apt because it's a small mistake with potentially bad consequences that is just an inevitable result of the work.

Disclosures of that nature are not at the same order as writing bugs into production software.

Except a bug in production software can disclose that same thing, except on a much more massive scale than a human? Almost any mistake a human can make can be translated into software and expanded by many magnitudes with a software bug.

True - writing bugs into production software can be far, far worse. For example, leaking patient health information from a medical database.

I disagree, which is why I chose that analogy.