Data of millions of Facebook users exposed on the internet

A cybersecurity firm announced that it found millions of records openly exposed on the internet containing people’s personal data from Facebook, including Facebook passwords for 22,000 people.

UpGuard said the latest leaked datasets, including people’s likes and interests, was publicly accessible on Amazon-owned servers until after it found the files and began investigating during the past few months.

UpGuard made it clear that now the damage had been done and the people exposed with this breach.

UpGuard said it found two instances of Facebook data exposed online. One dataset belonged to Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva and contained more than 540 million records detailing information such as Facebook comments, likes and reactions.

The second dataset related to an app called “At the Pool.” It was smaller but contained Facebook unencrypted passwords for 22,000 users, as well as email addresses and other information, UpGuard said. The app ceased operation in 2014, according to the report.

Facebook said in a statement that once alerted to the issue, it worked with Amazon to take down the databases and is committed to working with the developers to protect people’s data.

Via CNN