Facebook removes exposed user records stored on Amazon's servers via SABCNewsOnline
UpGuard’s Cyber Risk team announced in a blog post on Wednesday that Mexico City-based news website Cultura Colectiva had used Amazon servers to openly store 540 million records on Facebook users, including identification numbers, comments, reactions and account names.said on Wednesday that it removed public databases containing its user data on Amazon.com Inc’s cloud servers after cybersecurity firm UpGuard discovered millions of exposed records.
Another database, from an app called At the Pool, listed names, passwords and email addresses of 22 000 people, UpGuard said.records came from user interactions with its three pages on Facebook and is the same information publicly accessible to anyone browsing those pages. “We are aware of the potential uses of data in current times, so we have reinforced our security measures to protect the data and privacy of our Facebook fanpages’ users.”
Facebook said in its statement that it worked with Amazon to take down the databases once alerted to the issue.Facebook has been hit by a number of privacy-related issues, including a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees.
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