Researchers from the cybersecurity firm UpGuard found that Facebook user account information was exposed on Amazon cloud servers.
Researchers at cybersecurity firm UpGuard claim to have found the records of millions of Facebook users in publicly-accessible places on Amazon's cloud servers.
Nonetheless, the exposure highlights the fact that Facebook partners have been able to collect significant amounts of data through their own apps, and that these partners may not always have secured that information adequately. Facebook has faced a barrage of negative publicity over the last two years related to the way it and its partners collect, share and secure data that users store and share on the service.
The company said in a blog post that the data it found on Amazon's S3 service included over 540 million records with Facebook user information like comments, reactions and account names that appear to have been uploaded by Mexico-based media company Cultura Colectiva. "[AWS] S3 buckets usually have a name," said UpGuard's vice president of product Greg Pollock."In this case, the names were Yeti DB and the other one was CC Data Lake. If you guessed those names and have access to a browser, that's how easy it is."
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