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Facebook has had a hard week, and New York’s Attorney General isn’t looking to make it any easier. AG Letitia James has opened an investigation into Facebook over the company’s email contact collection. Facebook uploaded more than 1.5 million users’ contacts without their consent, marking yet another data scandal for the company. “Facebook has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of respect for consumer information while at the same time profiting from mining that data,” AG James said in a Twitter statement. BREAKING: We're launching an investigation into Facebook's unauthorized collection of 1.5M of their users’ email contact databases. Facebook has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of respect for consumer information while at the same time profiting from mining that data. — NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) April 25, 2019 If you’ve been under a rock for the last year, Facebook has been on a joyride collecting, distributing and mishandling its users’ data. Just this year, the company admitted...
Facebook doesn’t have the best reputation for creating a secure platform. From leaving passwords in plain text, to its app developers leaving users’ records exposed , Facebook continues to slip up. Now, a report by Cisco cybersecurity research division — Talos — has found that Facebook still has an ongoing problem with cybercrime groups. Talos said it compiled a list of 74 groups on Facebook with about 385,000 members who “promised to carry out an array of questionable cyber dirty deeds.” This included selling or trading stolen bank and credit card information and email spamming tools. The majority of those groups didn’t work all that hard to hide what they were doing. According to Talos, most used obvious names like “Facebook hack (Phishing)” and “Spammer & Hacker Professional.” To find the groups, all anyone had to do was a simple search containing some keywords. In addition, Talos noted that once someone joins one or more of those cybercrime groups, Facebook’s own algorithms...
Facebook’s struggles with privacy are well known, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to the company storing passwords in plaintext . Every time, Facebook says it’ll do better, but it seems it still hasn’t done enough. Recently, researchers from security firm UpGuard found that third-party Facebook app developers left hundreds of millions of user records on publicly visible cloud servers. Most of the data came from Cultura Colective, a media company based in Mexico. They were responsible for a 146 gigabyte dataset that contained 540 million records detailing comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs, and more. UpGuard reported they tried contacting Cultura Colective on January 10th, 2019 and again on the 14th to no response. In addition, researchers found data from an app titled “At the Pool”. It contained personal information along with 22,000 passwords. Although researchers assumed those passwords were for the app itself, they noted it put users at risk if they reused the...