translated from Spanish: New cases of exposure of users of Facebook data

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – security researchers have discovered more cases in which data of Facebook users have been exposed publicly on the internet, emphasizing the difficulties that cool the social network NTA to address a number of security issues. Researchers of the UpGuard firm published Wednesday on the internet that the data, including names and passwords of users, came from two Facebook applications that stored data publicly Amazon.Una the bases of cloud services of data was a means of Mexico called collective culture, and included more than 540 millions of records, as comments from users and “like”. Another era of an app called At the Pool. The researchers said the stored passwords for At the Pool was “allegedly” to the app and not to Facebook. Even so, store them publicly puts at risk to people if they use the same password on different accounts.
Facebook said that the databases were already lowered cloud. However, the incident illustrates the problems that has the social network to control the data of its users, especially once they are in the hands of external developers.

Although the collection of data At the Pool was not as large as the collective culture, UpGuard said that it included passwords in plaintext from 22,000 users. The app closed in 2014 and UpGuard said that he did not know how long were exposed the details of users. The discovery was revealed little more than one year after the scandal of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, in which the firm’s analysis of data obtained personal information of millions of users of Facebook.” Although Facebook is facing scrutiny for their data management practices, it has made strides to reduce the access of external. But as these revelations show it, cannot be put to the genius of the lamp data,”wrote UpGuard in his publication. “Data about users from Facebook extends beyond the limits of what Facebook can now control”.

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