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Data of 540 million Facebook users exposed in latest privacy cock-up

Thursday April 4, 2019. 12:19 PM , from BetaNews
It is only a couple of weeks since we learned that Facebook has been storing user passwords in searchable plain text, and now there is -- yet another -- privacy scandal. This time, the private data of over half a billion Facebook users was left exposed on publicly-accessible Amazon servers. Security firm UpGuard discovered that the private data of 540 million Facebook users was exposed in Amazon Web Services S3 buckets. Now removed, the data included identification numbers, comments, reactions and account names. In some instances, names, passwords and email addresses were also exposed. See also: Mark Zuckerberg's calls for… [Continue Reading]
https://betanews.com/2019/04/04/540-million-facebook-users-data-exposed/
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