Facebook Data Breach: Computer Forensics Analysis and Findings

This assignment is a presentation analyzing the 2019 Facebook data breach from a computer forensics perspective. It details the incident where a database containing user data was exposed, emphasizing the lack of password protection. The presentation explores the importance of data protection and the role of computer forensics in investigating such breaches, including the use of techniques to analyze evidence and identify vulnerabilities. It highlights the Cambridge Analytica case and the impact of exposed data. The presentation further discusses how computer forensics was used, and the importance of handling evidence securely. The assignment also provides references to relevant news articles and resources for further study.

Facebook Data
breach
IT SECURITY AND DATA PROTECTION

About the Facebook recent news
• TechCrunch’s reported that the database
that contained confidential data of each
customer was available on internet.
• The data breach took place in 2019.
• The data was present within the server
without any password protection
• But worst of all, with no password
protection in place on the server, literally
anybody with an internet connection
could access the sensitive data.

Importance of protection on data
• Data plays important role
for every social media.
Thus it becomes essential
to protect the data.
• Data security offers
better reliability towards
the system and ensures
that no data is being
accessed by any
unnecessary people.

Research on the case
• The mobile numbers were made
available on internet. The server does
not have any proper protection.
• This lead to data breaches from the
server.
• Cambridge analytical raised concern
about the incident and exposed that over
half billion Facebook records were left on
the internet without encryption.
• This impacted the overall performance
and also impacted the data stored within
the Facebook

Data based on news
• The hacker accessed the phone
number and through that all the
sites were being accessed by
them.
• Contact details is one of the prior
information regarding a user and
thus it gets impacted by the
spams around the internet.
• They has the potential to hijack
the phone for performing criminal
activities and can access all
essential data related to the users.

About computer forensic
• Computer forensic is referred to the
application that helps in investigating
the data.
• This ensures that data is being
analyzed effectively so that it can
presented in the court as a data.
• Computer forensic helps in saving the
data and ensures that the organization
is being protected from the hackers.
• Computer forensic helps in
maintaining integrity within collected
evidence.

Computer forensic
• In the selected news the computer
forensic is being used for analyzing
whether proper evidence is being
collected for identifying the data
breach.
• Cambridge analytica identified that
due to improper way of managing the
records in the server it lead to data
breaches.
• The main aim behind using computer
forensic is to ensure that data is
being collected securely and are used
for identifying the criminal activity.

References
• Tripwire, I. (2019). Hundreds of millions of Facebook
users' phone numbers exposed. [online] The State of
Security. Available at: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-
security/featured/facebook-users-phone-numbers/
[Accessed 15 Sep. 2019].
• Maras, M.H., 2015. Computer forensics. Jones and
Bartlett Learning.
• Evison, M.P. and Bruegge, R.W.V. eds., 2016. Computer-
aided forensic facial comparison. CRC Press.
• Jain, A., Raj, M.K., Nisarga, S.U., Vaz, R. and Neelaja, K.,
2016. Document Clustering for Computer Forensic
Analysis. International Journal, 6(5).

Thank You