Data leak exposes 48M user profiles, scraped by startup from Facebook, Zillow and others, researcher

Geekwire -------- A cybersecurity firm called UpGuard has tied Facebook — as well as other popular consumer sites — to another data leak. UpGuard’s Chris Vickery revealed details about the leak last week, after first discovering the situation in February. Vickery says he found 48 million profiles constructed using technology that scrapes public data from sites like Facebook, Zillow, and Twitter, on an Amazon S3 storage container without a password. Vickery finds data vulnerabilities and breaches as part of UpGuard’s cyber risk team. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.