3 million Facebook users affected by new data leak

A popular personality quiz app left more than three million Facebook users’ private information exposed on a vulnerable website for four years, according to an investigation by New Scientist.

Facebook users were encouraged to share personal and intimate details, like the results of a psychological test, with the app myPersonality. Academics working at the University of Cambridge then transferred the information to a website with “insufficient security provisions” where it remained for four years, according to the Monday report. During this time, outside parties could reportedly access this personal data with relative ease.

Those who had access to the data would’ve been able to view 3.1 million users’ app scores that reveal personal characteristics about a particular individual, like their conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism, according to the report.