Cybersecurity firm says it found millions of records openly exposed on the internet containing people’s personal data from Facebook, including Facebook passwords for 22,000 people.
The latest leaked datasets, including people’s likes and interests, was publicly accessible on Amazon-owned servers until after UpGuard found the files and began investigating during the past few months, the company said.
“The data genie cannot be put back in the bottle,” UpGuard said in its report. “Data about Facebook users has been spread far beyond the bounds of what Facebook can control today. Combine that plenitude of personal data with storage technologies that are often misconfigured for public access, and the result is a long tail of data about Facebook users that continues to leak.”
Facebook said in a statement Wednesday that its policies prohibit storing Facebook information in a public database.
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