Facebook quiz app maker exposed data on over 120 million users

guest · Jun 28, 2018

Facebook quiz app maker exposed data on over 120 million users
Yet another shoddy app on the social network.
June 28, 2018
https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/28/facebook-quiz-app-exposed-data-120-million-users/

Case in point: security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire has found that a quiz app from NameTests.com has been exposing user data for more than a year.

In a Medium post, De Ceukelaire notes that the javascript could potentially leak your Facebook ID, your first and last name and the language you speak, along with your gender, date fo birth, profile picture, cover photo, currency, the devices you use, the last update of your information, posts and statuses and your photos and friends. He also reports that this data had been publicly exposed since at least the latter part of 2016.

De Ceukelaire reported the issue to Facebook's Data Abuse program in April. NameTests.com apparently fixed the problem a few days ago, on June 25th.

On the 27th, Facebook awarded him a $4,000 bug bounty, which was doubled when he donated it to charity, and wrote a post on its Bug Bounty page [...]
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