Facebook quiz app may have leaked personal data of 120 million users

While the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t that far in our past, we knew it was going to unearth a lot of skeletons in Facebook’s closet. The latest one is a Facebook quiz app that may have leaked personal data of around 120 million users who’ve answered the quizzes. Security researcher who goes by the username Inti De Ceukelaire discovered the leak by taking part in Facebook’s data abuse bounty program launched in April 10. One of the third-party apps he looked through was from NameTests.com and there he discovered that the site exposed Facebook users’ data to “any third-party that requested it.” He found that the app exposed user information through javascript, which could easily share files between sites as part of its basic functions.

The site has possibly leaked information since the end of 2016 and De Ceukelaire reported it to Facebook by April 22. Unfortunately, Facebook’s response wasn’t as speedy as the fix only came around the end of June. According to NameTests’ parent company, Social Sweethearts, they have investigated the issue but no user data has been compromised and they are working on measures to avoid these risks from happening in the future. 

Source: TechCrunch

Big data leak hits European football clubs

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Unfortunately, nothing is safe from data leaks these days. Professional football (or soccer) is its latest victim. German publication Der Spiegel released a first of possibly a steady stream of stories and details related to corruption happening in different European professional clubs as well as the players involved in the sport. A group called “Football Leaks” got their hands on 1.9 terabytes of data, which covers 18.6 million documents that include secret agreements between clubs and players.

The first story Der Spiegel broke is about how football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Mesut Özil have been taking advantage of different tax laws to make a lot of money. It’s not news for the industry as Lionel Messi was recently convicted of tax fraud. But this just goes to show there are possibly more controversial stories coming out of the leak.

Source: Engadget