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Facebook data breach continues more than a year after Cambridge Analytica
Data from Facebook continues to leak more than year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The soci…
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user personal date leak from Facebook and twitter by 3rd party apps
The apps violated Facebook platform policy by installing software in their apps by sending infor…
PTI
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Millions of Facebook users' data was leaked
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Lauren Johnson
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Facebook says the leak of 533 million users' data online wasn't a hack - but its explanation of what happened doesn't quite add up
Facebook on Tuesday said the breach was old data obtained via scraping - but the timeline it put fo…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Facebook in the crosshairs yet again – this time, India’s cybersecurity agency issues an advisory to Indian users
India’s cybersecurity agency Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an adviso…
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A leaked Facebook PR memo shows how the company plans to downplay data leaks obtained through 'scraping' and sidestep criticism
The Facebook PR email said it planned to frame data scraping as a "broad industry issue" to avoid c…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Cambridge Analytica suspends CEO amid Facebook data leak uproar
"Mr. Nix's recent comments secretly recorded by Channel 4 and other allegations do not represent th…
Eliza Relman
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Mark Zuckerberg's phone number appeared among the leaked data of Facebook users, according to a researcher
Facebook said the data in question was found and fixed in 2019. However, the posting of the content…
Zahra Tayeb
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How to check if your phone number was leaked in Facebook data breach of 533 million users
A massive Facebook data breach has leaked phone numbers, full names, locations, email address and o…
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Facebook is under investigation in the EU for its massive leak of 533 million people's data - and it could face a fine in the billions
Facebook could face a fine of up to 4% of its $86 billion global revenue if found responsible for b…
Aaron Holmes
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How to find out in 10 seconds whether your phone number was leaked in the giant Facebook breach that exposed the data of 533 million users
A Facebook breach affecting 533 million users prompted the security analyst who runs "Have I been p…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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After data from half a billion Facebook users was leaked, the company isn't planning to tell people if they were impacted
Facebook accidentally leaked the personal information of over 533 million users, but is unable to a…
Ben Gilbert
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Leaked emails show how Facebook wielded its control over user data to hobble rivals like YouTube, Twitter, and Amazon
Another leaked exchange from October 2011 shows high-ranking employees planning to blacklist Twitte…
Aaron Holmes
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533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and - in so…
Aaron Holmes
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The EU is investigating Instagram for allegedly exposing the contact data of up to 5 million underage users
Ireland's Data Protection Commission is launching two investigations into Instagram, owned by Faceb…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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540 million Facebook users had sensitive personal data left exposed by app developers
The findings highlight how Facebook's years of lax oversight over how app developers could access u…
Rob Price
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Facebook fought to keep a trove of thousands of explosive internal documents and emails secret. They were just published online in full.
Facebook has fought vigorously against the release of the documents. It continues to argue that the…
Rob Price
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Facebook is limiting developers' access to user data, following Cambridge Analytica scandal
As part of his post, Schroepfer also warned users that Facebook's privacy problems were worse than …
Troy Wolverton
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Facebook admits to another data leak, saying that up to 100 developers accessed people's data from Groups
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook tightened its rules on what personal data a…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Facebook now says up to 87 million users may have had their data leaked to Cambridge Analytica
The number of Facebook users whose data was illegitimately leaked to data research firm Cambridge A…