540 million Facebook users' data exposed by third party developers

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/data-flying-dutchman.html

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That logo with dropped vowels looks like some commercial drug name.

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Lol. It’s always an S3 bucket these days, it seems.

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True. The pathetic part is that you have to make an effort to make an S3 instance public and available to unauthenticated users. They’re private by default. That means the developers working for these companies are some lazy, corner-cutting incompetents (or they’re selling the data to criminals on the side).

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Yeah, it’s epic negligence. Or worse.

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For some reason they’ve deleted one of their statements.

FWIW the spanish version is still there: https://twitter.com/CulturaColectiv/status/1113556002228641793

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You misinterpreted an important detail in that article. The 22,000 plain text passwords stored are for the Pool app, not Facebook. I don’t think even Facebook is stupid enough to hand over its users’ passwords to third parties.

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Is tht th nw thng?

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Just last week they blew whistle on sexual harassment at Cultura Colectiva

I can’t wait for exactly this to come out.

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