Facebook Quiz App ‘ Nametests ‘ Leaked Private Data of 120 Million UsersByDeepak Parihar-June 29, 2018 ‘ 3/3.2050.jpg ‘ An app business nametests.com offering Facebook quizzes was accused of revealing up to 120 million users of private data. Even after users deleted their apps, the quizzes continued to store the information. Cybersecurity researcher Inti De Ceukelairenametests.comand officially archives the users ‘ names and photos for years. The researcher says he was shocked by what he found the system’s carelessness in protecting user data a glaring flaw as per him. While hunting for Facebook data abusers Inti De Ceukelaire revealed in his Medium Blog that ‘ nametests.com ‘ revealed data to third parties about users. He found the system fault and said the quiz used the javascript file to display personal information (name location age birthday) that is vulnerable to any external website visited by the user while logging in to Facebook. The post also discussed the expansive weakness of the platform which allows additional data access to third party websites in the form of javascript access tokens. The disclosure of personal data continues even if the researcher deletes the program. The only way to stop it from accessing your data is to delete your cookies as nametests.com does not provide a logout feature. When users take a mere quiz on Facebook they don’t realize it leads to the loss of personal data for the ad-targeting campaigns of the apps posting additional information. On March 21, Facebook announced an out – and-out audit of the app and vowed to investigate all the applications accessing information from its website. None of us want our personal information accessed by any website and exploited us in exchange by targeted ads based on our posts and friends. When the researcher reached Facebook, he answered by saying that they’re looking into the issue. Facebook later dodged a follow-up email saying it could take three to six months to complete the investigation and promised to keep Ceukelaire in the loop. But a few days later Facebook admitted the flaw to this reply and informed it was working with nametests.com and resolving the issue. Ceukelaire said that only the tip of the iceberg was this discovery toward Facebook, most of which is already terrifying to see the sun. Grip.