New scandal for Facebook .. Infusion of celebrity data on Instagram

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A new scandal has taken place in Facebook, but this time it concerns one of the giant products of the network, with the instagram application of a major disaster leaking tens of millions of data, including millions of celebrity accounts of artists and influencers.

According to the US TechCrunch website, a large database was found on the Internet, which includes 49 million different account data, the number increasing every hour, where the database was found, raised through the Amazon cloud services without a password, which means that someone He can access it and see the data, but its owner has not yet known.

The report revealed that security researcher Anurag Sen is the one who found the database, and asked Instagram to make efforts to reach the owner of this rule, in addition to securing user data, especially that the database includes many personal information such as "personal profile, name, phone number, E-mail, profile, location, and state ", if confirmed with InStagram, as well as other information specific to each account, as well as data on the value of accounts and the number of followers and interaction with them.

For its part, Facebook, the parent company of Instagram, said that it is currently investigating, and is working to reform it.

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