The socialemediabedrijf has the leak immediately fixed after the news about the millions of user data came out. But that is the underlying problem in the eyes of UpGuard not solved yet. "There is not enough attention paid to the beveiligingskant of big data", says managing director cyberrisicobeheer Chris Vickery of UpGuard.
Read also VIDEO. Facebook exists 15 years: as evolved Mark Zuckerbergs genius but controversial social networking siteIn one case, the Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva 540 million documents with information about facebook users, including identifiers, comments, and usernames, publicly stored. The database was closed after the financial news agency Bloomberg Facebook warned about the problem. Facebook contacted thereon Amazon, so message Bloomberg. The data set amounted to 146 gigabytes.
Facebook is also still by different bodies examined in the aftermath of the notorious data breach to the consulting company Cambridge Analytica. That played the data of millions of users which were used for the election campaign of Donald Trump. Experts think that the affair Facebook or a lot of money can cost.