Researchers at cybersecurity company UpGuard report that they have uncovered millions of Facebook user posts inadvertently hosted on Amazon's cloud servers. Similar incidents have happened before, and last year there was a major scandal involving an app from Cambridge Analytica that collected user data under the guise of a harmless quiz.
Experts believe that since then, the necessary work aimed at improving the security of the information stored by Facebook has not been carried out. It is difficult to say how long the databases were stored on серверах Amazon, and who may have accessed them. Researchers report that after contacting Facebook, the discovered user information was deleted.
The first database, held by Mexico City-based Cultura Colectiva, contained approximately 540 million Facebook user records, including personal IDs, comments, reviews, and more. The database was deleted after Bloomberg contacted Facebook to report the issue. The second database, part of a long-defunct social networking app, contained usernames, passwords, and email addresses for 22,000 users. This database was likely accidentally uploaded. servers Amazon, but the issue still raises questions about where user data collected by Facebook apps goes.
Source: 3dnews.ru
