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540 million Facebook records exposed by app developers on insecure AWS server

posted onApril 4, 2019
by l33tdawg
computing.co.uk
Credit: computing.co.uk

The records of some 540 million Facebook users - about one-quarter of the total - have been found on two insecured AWS servers.

The records were acquired by two third-party app developers from Facebook and found by researchers at security firm UpGuard.

The majority of the records come from Mexican media company Cultura Volectiva, which had a 146GB dataset containing more than 540 million records, including information such as account names, IDs and Facebook activity. The second dataset belongs to now-defunct app 'At The Pool' and, while it contains just 22,000 records, this included sensitive data including users' passwords stored in plaintext.

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