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FB, Twitter Double Shock: Data Leaked!

By:  Tupaki Desk   |   30 April 2018 2:14 PM IST
FB, Twitter Double Shock: Data Leaked!
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Data Analytica scandal has created a huge sensation as the data of Facebook users has been compromised. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to answer the people and the US authorities regarding the Facebook data security breach. He admitted that the third party applications like Cambridge Analytica has misused the Facebook data and they will make sure that this kind of incidents will never happen in future.

In a recent development, Mark Zuckerberg shocked everybody once again. The quarterly report of Facebook which has been submitted to the America Securities and Exchange Commission, they claimed that there are chances of more data leaks because of the third-party applications.

In another shocking development, microblogging site Twitter revealed that they have given the data access to Cambridge Analytica and they have stolen the huge data. As per the information provided to Bloomberg Twitter revealed that they have given permission to GSR company to run an application for the period of December 2014 to April 2015. When they run the random sample of public tweets they found out that the data has been leaked. Twitter revealed that they have done an internal review over the security after the reports of security leak reports published in the media and found out that their data also leaked.

Twitter revealed that when they found out that Cambridge Analytica and their related entities have cheated over data, they have removed the advertisements of those companies. Whatever be the case, the social media giants like Facebook, Twitter gave crude shocks to the social media users.