Already bored of the headline because its not new? Despite the fact that it is new, Facebook and privacy scandals have been under the spotlight for quite some time now and the social media giant can’t seem to get it straight with the massive amount of data it has.
Security researchers from UpGuard have found more than 540 million Facebook records exposed in a public database. This information includes 22,000 passwords in plaintext and some other sensitive information. Thereafter, Facebook sent a little pop-up to all Facebook accounts showing that this leak had led to plaintext files being exposed that store user passwords.
Facebook has been dropping the ball lately, big time. After the Cambridge Analytica issue, the company has been the spotlight of many privacy violation issues. The last one included millions of passwords of its users in plain text, but things just got worse.
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“Facebook’s policies prohibit storing Facebook information in a public database. Once alerted to the issue, we worked with Amazon to take down the databases. We are committed to working with the developers on our platform to protect people’s data,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.
The one thing to notice here is how much data Facebook actually has on us, that its own servers weren’t enough to store them and had to ask Amazon for assistance. We now have found out that there were millions of data records stored in one of Amazon’s public servers. The information in this server included photos, events, passwords and more that were stored on Amazon servers without any protection and came from “Cultura Colectiva” and an app called “At the Pool” that hasn’t been active since 2014. Things are getting tough for Facebook as privacy becomes the priority of its users and it fails at fulfilling that privacy requirement. It might soon see people shift to other platforms as these scandals grow.
