A U.S. cybersecurity company said Wednesday that records of millions of Facebook users stored on Amazon's cloud servers were exposed to the public.
The cybersecurity firm UpGuard based in California reported that the third party developed Facebook app datasets, which totaled 146 gigabytes, contained over 540 million records detailing comments, likes, reactions, account names and FB IDs.
The compromised data was stored on Amazon's public cloud servers by the Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva.
The info about users, though they might not be as sensitive as their Social Security Numbers, could expose their interests, relationships and interactions to third-party developers.
UpGuard noted that it also found a database backup for a Facebook-integrated app called "At the Pool," which contained passwords for 22,000 users of the app.
It said no Facebook user passwords were found in the database backup of the app, which ceased operation in 2014.
The Company has recently been under heavy scrutiny from the public and federal regulators for its handling of user privacy.
As a result, they started an audit of thousands of apps and suspended hundreds of them last year to ensure information was not stored unsecured in public databases.
- (Xinhua)
