Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a startling report from the Washington Post:
Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the “safest place on the Internet,” left years of users’ most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied to their age, location and other details, raising alarm among cybersecurity researchers that users could have been unmasked or blackmailed. The data exposure, discovered by…
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App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet
For your regular reminder that developers across the world sometimes have real trouble putting any sort of protection on their databases, third party apps left Facebook user data exposed to the open internet, according to cybersecurity firm UpGuard. Bloomberg was first to report the news. The data exposures do not come from Facebook itself, but… Continue reading App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet