Article 4CDSM Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on public servers – report

Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on public servers – report

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Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco
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Material discovered on Amazon cloud servers in latest example of Facebook letting third parties extract user data

More than 540m Facebook records were left exposed on public internet servers, cybersecurity researchers said on Wednesday, in just the latest security black eye for the company.

Researchers for the firm UpGuard discovered two separate sets of Facebook user data on public Amazon cloud servers, the company detailed in a blogpost.

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