Over 540 million Facebook user records leaked by third parties [bgr.com]
Third-party Facebook apps left people's data publicly exposed, researchers say [www.cyberscoop.com]
Security Firm Finds Millions of Facebook Data Files Were Stored on Amazon’s Public Cloud Servers [www.adweek.com]
540 Million Facebook User Records Exposed Online, Plus Passwords, Comments, and More [gizmodo.com]
New: Facebook user info still being found via third-party-developer data leaks. UpGuard report: https://t.co/xk3bBRqvqv
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) April 3, 2019
Bloomberg coverage: https://t.co/uFYmSHG6hG
It's like Brexit—flood the zone with bad news until the number of fucks we give drops to zero https://t.co/mbBqRWHsZ6
— Leo (@lmirani) April 3, 2019
This week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award goes to Facebook!
— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) April 3, 2019
"Oh, it was one of their partners--" Stop talking immediately. They were the stewards of the data. They shared it with their partner. It is their responsibility, full stop. https://t.co/mYqYA2pAnP
From a Facebook spox: https://t.co/HgaVHGsPA2 pic.twitter.com/y0IcKpTmQk
— Dell Cameron (@dellcam) April 3, 2019
540 million Facebook records found in one instance, 22 thousand plain text passwords in another — we don’t know how many databases like this are out there. @UpGuard found a couple but there are 100k public amazon databases, holding all kinds of data, some public by accident
— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) April 3, 2019
Is there a never-ending supply of this stuff? https://t.co/lSBGiAEqDK
— alex (SF) (@alex) April 3, 2019
also why are FB engineers paid more than their PR staff, when the former seem to merely generate crises for the latter to try to clean up
There are 2 level of #GDPR fines:
— Sean Tuffy (@SMTuffy) April 3, 2019
1) up to €10 million or 2% of the company’s global annual turnover of the previous financial year, whichever is higher.
2) up to €20 million or 4% of the company’s global annual turnover of the previous financial year, whichever is higher https://t.co/CQpmeFIhGz
Full post on the latest Facebook data exposure, this time it's third-party apps being cavalier about the data they gleaned from FB. Hundreds of millions of records out there on the public internet: https://t.co/AYD35UusQG
— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) April 3, 2019
#BREAKING | Security firm finds millions of Facebook data files were stored on Amazon's public cloud servers: https://t.co/FYDtUvMRQv pic.twitter.com/Bv2Rwb7Lz9
— Adweek (@Adweek) April 3, 2019
"The data set reportedly contains over 146 GB of data, which amounts to over 540 million Facebook user records, including comments, likes, reactions, account names, Facebook user IDs, and more."
— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) April 3, 2019
Is FB now the leakiest company ever?https://t.co/QmxoIQO29b
540 Million Facebook User Records Exposed Online, Plus Passwords, Comments, and More https://t.co/OopLHLi8F2
— Privacy Camp (@PrivacyCamp) April 3, 2019
In what has become a depressingly common refrain for the social network behemoth, Facebook user data has once again been left exposed to the public. According to researchers at security... https://t.co/Mf360RlpOZ
— Maureen Fitzsimmons (@mojos55) April 4, 2019
More than 540 million records with user information including comments, likes, reactions, names and Facebook IDs were exposed on the public internet. https://t.co/FYDtUvMRQv
— Adweek (@Adweek) April 4, 2019
#ADVERTISING NEWSWIRE: Security Firm Finds Millions of Facebook Data Files Were Stored on Amazon’s Public Cloud Servers https://t.co/5ssMaywgtq #marketing #socialmedia #influencermarketing pic.twitter.com/Dt1vopO0em
— Real Marsha Wright® | Top 5 Marketing Influencer (@marshawright) April 3, 2019
Hey guys, I'm starting to think Facebook might be less than ideal, especially for people who aren't B-list white nationalists waiting for all of their personal information to be stolen and sold to a FarmVille knockoff. But that's just me https://t.co/UsS8XhBXIf
— Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) April 3, 2019
going down soonhttps://t.co/zTspuZ8Saz
— Robert Wiedenhaft (@verndog68) April 4, 2019
Wow. So that happened. https://t.co/8a7hCRtTrm
— Quinn "kind of here" Norton (@quinnnorton) April 3, 2019
Problem #4397 with Facebook indiscriminately sharing data with third-party developers: What are the safeguards to ensure Facebook users' data is protected after it leaves the platform? https://t.co/uFjNWtOLH1
— EFF (@EFF) April 3, 2019
540 Million Facebook user records (146 GB) exposed online, including comments, likes, reactions, account names, Facebook user IDs, passwords and more. https://t.co/gd1VlyCzCp
— AMDI, A.C. (@AMDImx) April 3, 2019