Security researchers today said they found data on 540 millions of Facebook users on Amazon's cloud servers.
The researchers safety from the team UpGuard Cyber Risk, reported today that they found a total of 146GB of data on Amazon's cloud servers, split into two large chunks. The first piece of data comes from a media company called Cultura Colectiva and contains records of user activity such as comments, reactions, friends, interests, groups, checkins, events, photos and more, as well as Facebook account names and IDs.
Her second piece leakageς φαίνεται να είναι ένα αντίγραφο ασφαλείας από μια application τρίτων κατασκευαστών, ενσωματωμένη στο Facebook, με την επωνυμία “At the Pool”, η οποία περιελάμβανε τα ίδια στοιχεία με το προηγούμενο κομμάτι συν τους κωδικούς πρόσβασης των χρηστών. Ωστόσο, οι ερευνητές δήλωσαν ότι οι κωδικοί πρόσβασης φαίνεται να προέρχονται από την εφαρμογή “At the Pool”, αντί των λογαριασμών Facebook.
But users have used the same passwords on two their accounts, i.e. Facebook and the “At the Pool” app, are at risk of losing their accounts. The researchers also said the data has been removed after contacting Facebook.
The At the Pool application stopped 2014 and the company website is currently returning an 404 error notification. This means that exposed names, passwords, emails, Facebook IDs and other details were open to each attacker for an unknown period of time.
Therefore, the security company recommends to all Facebook users, especially those who have used the application "At the Pool", to immediately change their passwords. Just a few weeks ago, engineers Facebok discovered that user names and passwords of hundreds of millions of users were kept as plain text on one of their servers and accessible to thousands of employees.