Facebook online quiz maker exposes personal data

[Monkeybiz0985]

So the Facebook hits just keep rolling in.

 

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/28/17514822/facebook-data-leak-quiz-app-nametests-social-sweetheart-exposed-user-info

 

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A developer of Facebook quizzes under the brand NameTests has been found to have exposed the personal information of as many as 120 million Facebook users, according to a report from TechCrunch. The company behind NameTests, German app maker Social Sweethearts, created popular social quizzes like “Which Disney Princess Are You?” and distributed them on Facebook, and it has around 120 million monthly users on the platform. Self-described hacker Inti De Ceukelaire wrote a Medium post yesterday, outlining how the quizzes were collecting Facebook information like names, birthdays, photos, and friend lists and displaying them in a JavaScript file, one that could be obtained easily by malicious third parties.

So if any of you recently found out which Disney princess you are (I always imagined myself as Mulan for some reason) then it's possible your Facebook data has been exposed).  

 

To be fair:

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In a statement given to TechCrunch, Social Sweethearts said there was no evidence personal data was exposed to third parties or that the data was ever misused. “As the data protection officer of Social Sweethearts, I would like to inform you that the matter has been carefully investigated,” the statement reads, though it is not attributed to a named individual. “The investigation found that there was no evidence that personal data of users was disclosed to unauthorized third parties and all the more that there was no evidence that it had been misused. Nevertheless, data security is taken very seriously at Social Sweethearts and measures are currently being taken to avoid risks in the future.”

However I trust a breached company's "Uh yeah, we totally think it's cool, ya'll are good, no one saw anything" type of comment as much as I trust that Swiper the Fox won't Swipe stuff.

 

Moral of the story: Don't take Facebook quizzes, because they all want your data, and this is what could happen to it. 

[TheGlenlivet]

FACEBOOK - NOT EVEN ONCE.

[ItsMitch]

Facebook are so fucking useless it BOGGLES my damn mind

[Ryujin2003]

Why would anyone be surprised?

 

But again, it's Facebook, you're just giving your shit away...

[Eduard the weeb]

tbh like I get they have a strangle hold on social media for like those born in the mid to early 80 and older but isn't all this collection the reason younger millennials and my Generation ( gen Z ) are staying away from Facebook because generally we understand the value of are personal data more? 

[jiyeon]

It's Facebook, I'm not surprised.™

[Christophe Corazza]

Time for yet another insincere apology.

[Bananasplit_00]

Yay for FB, dosent everyone love a good data breach? 

[mr moose]

Fuck me, I though the whole point of these guys existing was to sell your personal data? 

 

What did I miss?

[Jtalk4456]

so a buzzfeed replacement is stealing data? oh well, I'm not on FB...

[Arika]

and no one is surprised

 

(well, they shouldn't be)

[Guest]

BTW I was Rapunzel. These Quizzes are so accurate i’m balding.

[Princess Luna]

The only thing I get surprised with is why does people waste time on these quiz in the first place

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Facebook : Ooops we screwed up, have a bunch of ads about how we're going to get better

 

Everyone : Start caring about our privacy

 

Facebook : We care about your privacy

 

Hackers : oh btw theres an exploit in those quizzes

 

Facebook : wE cArE aBoUt yOuR pRiVaCy

[TacoSenpai]

Zuckbook can go suck it.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Zuckerbook does it again

[Clanscorpia]

18 hours ago, Eduard the weeb said:

tbh like I get they have a strangle hold on social media for like those born in the mid to early 80 and older but isn't all this collection the reason younger millennials and my Generation ( gen Z ) are staying away from Facebook because generally we understand the value of are personal data more? 

Thats not the reason why, Instagram and Snapchat do the exact same thing, Facebook just generally has a rep for being for old people and family. If anything, older people are more concerned about data collection, and basically noone in Gen Z cares.