Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes for Facebook Users Privacy Breach

Facebook again in the argument Data from 12 million FB operators leaked from quiz app

After Cambridge Analysis, Facebook seems to be stuck in controversy after again. According to a report, a quiz app misused the data of 12 million (120 million) Facebook users. A hacker revealed this after receiving information from Nametests.com (Nomestst.com). Really, it is a Personality Quiz App, which is sharing its deposit data with other businesses from the last two years (2016).

 
Data from 12 million Facebook operators leaked from quiz app

Nemetest is really a German business associate who works for creation quizzes, games and apps for Facebook. While generous information about the incident, the hacker said, “Facebook had publicized the reward on April 10 on the info related to the misuse of the data, after which I underway searching for such data and then (quiz app) I found out. ‘ This quiz app comes in German company Social Sweetheart which is, ‘Which Disney character do your appearance like?’ Similar quizzes word.

Hacker said Facebook in April

Hacker had informed Facebook about this data leak in its mission program in April itself, but this app was not removed even after a month had passed. Facebook took another month to resolve this susceptible issue Know that quiz is a very popular app, even for Facebook users. Hacker took a quiz from nametests website and then found out that the company shared that data with any third company.

Company denial of data leak

Hacker told this section how many facts such as names, birthdays, places, ages were collected through the quiz. The Facebook user’s data displayed the nemetests in a javascript file, after which the data of Facebook operators could easily be watched by any website. Though social sweethearts have denied in a statement that they misused the data.

Social Sweethearts’ Data Protection Officer said, “The matter was carefully investigated. None of the sign has been found in the examination so that it can be unspoken to know that the personal information of the users was shared with any third party nor any facts of the waste of the users’ data. Still, the data safety on social sweethearts has been taken very extremely and in the future, the company is now working on numerous measures to avoid such episodes.

Explanation of facebook

On the further, Facebook thought that they saw this matter very closely. Facebook said, “We had drawn our kindness to this issue with nametests.com, as a reward program launched in April, which was initiated to inspire the security of Facebook data. Afterward this, we worked with Namestes.com on their websites to resolve the issue, which was finished in June.

Cabriz analytics argument

Even previously that, Facebook has been trapped in controversy over data scandal, after which company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to apologize openly. It is notable that 80 million Facebook users of UK’s political checking firm Cabridge Analyica were suspect of sharing data.

Sumit Pandit
Sumit Pandit is a senior news reporter for Oispice. He is an expert on smartphones, apps, gadgets, and the tech industry. He writes for different tech news and has an excellent ability to make complex matters easy to understand. Sumit can be reached on Twitter @sumitkrpandit or Email at [email protected].

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