Data of 540 million Facebook users exposed in latest privacy cock-up

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By Mark Wyciślik-WilsonApr 4, 2019, 6:19 am163 pts
It is only a couple of weeks since we learned that Facebook has been storing user passwords in searchable plain text, and now there is -- yet another -- privacy scandal. This time, the private data of over half a billion Facebook users was left exposed on publicly-accessible Amazon servers. Security firm…

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