Personal information of to a greater extent than than iii 1 K m people were exposed online for 4 years yesteryear a personality app, called every bit myPersonality.
The app collected the intimate details of the Facebook users in addition to tin last accessed yesteryear anyone on the Internet.
Security researchers who designed the app are based at the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge. They uploaded a sensitive information of Facebook users onto a poorly protected website that contains a 1 K m answers to a personality trait questionnaires.
According to information on the Cambridge website, the app "collected information from over half dozen 1 K m volunteers" during the menstruum it was active. "It created "one of the largest social scientific discipline enquiry databases inward history."
"This information was anonymized in addition to samples of it were shared alongside registered academic collaborators to a greater extent than or less the globe through the myPersonality project, resulting inward over 45 scientific publications inward peer-reviewed journals," said the Cambridge website.
While Facebook has confirmed that they are investigating the affair in addition to convey temporarily suspended myPersonality app. "If myPersonality refuses to cooperate or fails our audit, nosotros volition ban it," said Ime Archibong, Facebook's vice president of production partnerships.
