Facebook records exposed. (Source: Shutterstock)
Facebook remains a personal identifiable information source that keeps giving. Researchers found two Amazon Web Services servers storing over 540 million records collected by two third-party companies from the social network.
Both servers were discovered by security researchers from Mountain View, Calif.-based UpGuard. The first, for Cultura Colectiva, a Mexico-based online media platform operating across Latin America countries, held 146 GB, over 540 million records listing account names, Facebook IDs, comments, likes, reactions, and other data.
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Roy Urrico
Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
