More than 540 million Facebook user records were left exposed on public internet servers, cybersecurity researchers said on Wednesday, in just the latest security black eye for the company. Researchers for the firm UpGuard discovered two separate sets of Facebook user data on public Amazon cloud servers, the company detailed in a blogpost. One dataset, linked to the Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva, contained more than 540 million records, including comments, likes, reactions, account names, Facebook IDs and more. The smaller dataset was taken offline during UpGuard’s investigation. Rather, it is another example, akin to the Cambridge Analytica case, of Facebook allowing third parties to extract large amounts of user data without controls on how that data is then used or secured.

Source: The Irish Times April 03, 2019 20:26 UTC