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2018 — Nametests: Poor security / misconfiguration, 12,000,000 records

2018 12.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal and demographic data

Technical writeup

A security failure in a "personality test" app on Facebook left millions of people's data publicly exposed for almost two years – even after they had deleted the app.

Root cause

Poor security / misconfiguration

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