Facebook Database Containing Private Information of 400 Million Users Has Been Found Online

2019-9-5 13:41

Coinspeaker
Facebook Database Containing Private Information of 400 Million Users Has Been Found Online

Facebook is in the middle of another serious problem of a security breach involving a feature that the company had disabled more than a while ago. According to reports, Facebook has unknowingly exposed personal data for many of its accounts in an unrestricted and unprotected database that was recently found by a security researcher.

Sometime in July last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg tendered a public apology when a serious inquiry from the Department of Justice along with other federal agencies began to investigate how Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm which worked for President Donald Trump, got their hands on data for more than 70 million U.S. Citizens.

It was discovered that the breach stemmed from the Facebook feature that allowed users to search for others’ accounts through their phone numbers. Apparently, the feature was shut down but the database containing all the information was still left accessible.

This recent incident, found by a security researcher Sanyam Jain, showed that the server exposed at least 419 million records across many different databases, which had personal information including a user’s name, phone number, individual ID and even location. Of this number, there were at least 50 million entries for Vietnamese users, 18 million for users in the United Kingdom and about 133 million for U.S. users alone.

Apparently, the server was also unprotected meaning that anyone who knew to find it, could retrieve all the information including phone numbers, even though public display of phone numbers has been disabled by Facebook since last year.

Facebook has however said that the data in question is outdated and has been retrieved without any breach to any one’s accounts. According to spokesperson Jay Nancarrow:

“This data set is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers. The data set has been taken down and we have seen no evidence that Facebook accounts were compromised.”

At the time of the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer explained how people could exploit the ability to search using phone numbers, for scraping.

According to Schroepfer, the feature was a great way for people to find old friends and acquaintances, especially in cases where the name being searched is common and just using the name alone will come up with too many results. He also added that the feature was beneficial to people who needed help with finding “friends in languages which take more effort to type out a full name.” Explaining further, Schroepfer said:

“However, malicious actors have also abused these features to scrape public profile information by submitting phone numbers of email addresses they already have through search and account recovery. Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we’ve seen we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way. So we have now disabled this feature.”

Facebook has been met with serious criticism since it announced the Libra, because of its security issues. Now, there’s a good chance that this new occurrence will dent the company’s chance for the Libra by next year.

Facebook (FB) stock is currently at $187.14, a 2.6% increase from its previous close of $182.39 and is more than 50% higher than its 52-week low of $123.02.

Facebook Database Containing Private Information of 400 Million Users Has Been Found Online

Similar to Notcoin - Blum - Airdrops In 2024

origin »

Dollar Online (DOLLAR) íà Currencies.ru

$ 0.0024551 (+0.00%)
Îáúåì 24H $0
Èçìåíåèÿ 24h: 0.00 %, 7d: 3.00 %
Cåãîäíÿ L: $0.0024551 - H: $0.0024551
Êàïèòàëèçàöèÿ $1.851k Rank 99999
Äîñòóïíî / Âñåãî 753.776k DOLLAR

facebook users found database online containing million

facebook users → Ðåçóëüòàòîâ: 126


Ôîòî:

The free internet makes us the product — we need to stop it

The bad headlines continue to stack up for Facebook this year: from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to the New York Times report that Facebook gave Apple, Samsung, and other mobile device makers access to its users personal data without permission, to the revelation that the firm routinely gives user information and preferences to several Chinese telecommunications firms, to last week’s security breach in which hackers took control of 50 million user accounts as well as any third-party sites those users logged into via Facebook.

2018-10-6 19:30


Facebook is developing a singing contest feature to rival musical.ly

If karaoke on the weekends isn’t enough for you to show off your vocals, you might like what Facebook has been caught working on. Researcher and code-breaker Jane Manchum Wong found a code which indicates that Facebook may introduce a ‘Talent Show’ feature where users would make use of Facebook’s recently added music partnerships by recording themselves singing and submitting their audition for review amongst other users on the platform.

2018-8-1 14:29


Coinbase Ads Get Reinstated On Google’s Pay Per Click Adwords Platform

Coinbase To Advertise Again On Google In An Effort To Reach More Prospective Users Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms across the globe is back on Google adverts. The announcement became to the public domain following the declaration by firm’s CEO Brian Armstrong, that it was whitelisted for Facebook adverts previously at the […]

2018-7-24 10:04


Ôîòî:

On Radical Markets

Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.

2018-7-21 04:03