In the case of Facebook, it has again been a data breach. So 540 million customer data were stored on a publicly accessible Amazon Cloud servers. The data have now been removed.

the Two companies have stored data of their users from the Online social network Facebook is openly available on the net. The incident could reignite the debate about data protection-responsibility of Facebook.

The Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva had stored data such as account names, comments, and “Like”information on a freely accessible area with the Amazon Cloud service AWS, such as the IT security company UpGuard reported. UpGuard found, therefore, that the developers of the years set App “At the Pool” camped also, until recently, information such as Facebook name unprotected.

Facebook emphasizes the existing prohibition

Facebook said in a response that the App developer is forbidden to store data from the platform of the Online network unprotected. You’ve been working on a note with Amazon to take the database from the network and wants to continue to work with developers on data protection.