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TikTok, Instagram and YouTube data leak exposes data of 235 million users
"The data was spread across several datasets and the most significant being two coming in at j…
Wall Street is surprisingly upbeat about Facebook after 5 recent catastrophes - but there could be a sting in the tail
They added: "We're not doubting they can't be fixed, but the fact that problems keep emerging reinf…
Shona Ghosh
Facebook could be fined up to $1.63 billion for a massive breach which may have violated EU privacy laws
The strict new regulation went into affect in May, and aims to safeguard user data for individuals …
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
Social media memories app Timehop got hit by a data breach affecting 21 million users
"The breach occurred because an access credential to our cloud computing environment was compromise…
Shona Ghosh
The 21-year-old who built a robot lawyer to fight parking tickets has a new tool to help you automatically sue companies who get hacked
There's two strands to Wednesday's update. The first is focused on privacy, and helps users lock do…
Rob Price
The biggest password flubs of 2019, from Facebook's stolen hard drives to Lisa Kudrow's Instagram
Multibillion-dollar tech giants like Facebook, Google, and WeWork made the list for security breach…
Aaron Holmes
LVMH collects people's facial scans without asking when they use its virtual try-on tool for glasses, lawsuit claims
Luxury goods retailer LVMH collected biometric data from customers that tried on its virtual glasse…
Jyoti Mann
Meta got fined $400 million for failing to protect kids' privacy on Instagram
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has doled out a total of $686 million in fines to Meta over th…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
11 million Unacademy user accounts were hacked in January — and they are now up for sale on Dark Web
The database of nearly 22 million learners on the edtech platform Unacademy was compromised in Janu…
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie supports a second Brexit referendum - here's why
The 28-year-old is a self-described progressive Eurosceptic, but now expresses support for a second…
Alan Dawson
5 easy ways to make your smartphone safer
We use our smartphones for just about everything, from mobile banking to hailing a cab, capturing a…
Lisa Eadicicco
Everything you need to know about Christopher Wylie, the 28-year-old gay vegan who blew the lid off a huge Facebook data breach
It remains to be seen if he is the millennials' first great whistleblower, but it was apt that his …
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
A group of Republican and Democrat senators want social media companies like Meta to face legal action if they don't share internal data with outside researchers
A bill with bipartisan support aims to help researchers investigate "the impact of digital communic…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta just got some bad news
The European Commission says Meta's "pay or consent" advertising model is in breach of the bloc's D…
Sarah Jackson
Facebook slides after states launch new antitrust probe, intensifying scrutiny on big tech
"Even the largest social media platform in the world must follow the law and respect consumers," Ja…
Daniel Strauss
100 million Capital One credit-card customers have had their data hacked. Here's what you should do instead of freaking out.
Disclosure: This post is brought to you by the Personal Finance Insider team. We occasionally highl…
Tanza Loudenback
OnePlus mishap exposes hundreds of customer emails
Instead of putting email IDs of customers in the "BCC" field, the company ended up copy-pasting …
Instagram's new TV service recommended videos of potential child abuse
Earlier this year, former Facebook moderator Sarah Katz told Business Insider that she had to revie…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
500 million Marriott customers have had their data hacked. Here's what you should do instead of freaking out
I use Mint.com to quickly check all of my financial accounts every morning, just like I check email…
Tanza Loudenback
France fines Google a record $170 million for making it too difficult to opt out of cookies
The French watchdog also fined Facebook's holding company Meta €60 million (or around $68 million) …