120 million Facebook users exposed by application worse than Cambridge Analytica

Facebook still lives the consequences of his recklessness with the people of Cambridge Analytica ; and it seems that there is already an even bigger scandal at the door.

Since the 89 million affected by this venture seem small before 1945, the more than 120 million users potentially exposed by the application of quizzes Nametests

Inti De Ceukelaire, a hacker "white hat" has just posted on his Twitter account @securinti and Medium Personal, the results of his most recent research on this subject

According to the Boy, NameTests he accessed the personal data of all these users through the Facebook API, which had a serious security problem on his website.

Thus, names, birth dates, publications, statuses, images and lists of friends those who played with this app could easily be taken by any hacker. Even after the user had deleted the permissions of the application.

Facebook was not very transparent

In April of this year, De Ceukelaire, who had participated in the Facebook bugs reward program, discovered the failure in the source code of the configuration section of Nametests

The code also included a token giving access to all the data to which the test application had access, including photos, Facebook list posts and publications. 39; friends.

The bug was reported at the time. Facebook said it would take up to six months to fix the problem. But this June 25 the security hole was sealed without further notice.

The expert warns that during the time when nothing has been done, these data have been exposed and could be stolen.

In this way, the magnitude of the problem would be even greater than that of Cambridge Analytica.