Millions of Facebook users' data has been exposed by app developers
had stored 540 million records weighing in at 146 gigabytes on Facebook users. This data – which was accessible and downloadable to anyone - included Facebook IDs and account names as well as comments, reactions and account names.
“As Facebook faces scrutiny over its data stewardship practices, they have made efforts to reduce third party access,” UpGuard says. “But as these exposures show, the data genie cannot be put back in the bottle. The firm also notified Amazon Web Services of the situation on January 28. AWS then responded on February 1 saying the bucket’s owner had been notified. But when by February 21 the data was still not secured, UpGuard emailed the firm again – only to be told AWS would be looking into how to secure the data.
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