Giant trove of Facebook user data was in open AWS S3 bucket

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Giant trove of Facebook user data was in open AWS S3 bucket
Once again data collecting companies' careless use of cloud storage has come back to bite them, after security researches found gigabytes of personal information with no access controls on an Amazon Web Services S3 instance. Security vendor Upguard said it discovered two data sets on open AWS ...

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