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2017 — Nametests: According to a post on Medium by the security…

2017 120.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

According to a post on Medium by the security researcher that discovered the flaw, Inti De Ceukelaire, Nametests.com, the website behind the quizzes, recently fixed a flaw that publicly exposed information of their more than 120 million monthly users — even after they deleted the app. . . .Who was affected?According to Facebook, NameTests has more than 120 million active monthly users. I have no insights in how many users have given their data to the app since their launch early 2015. It is impo

Root cause

Unintended disclosure

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