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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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Facebook's Twitter account was hijacked by the same group that hacked a bunch of NFL accounts

The tweet styles the hacker collective claiming responsibility for the hack as a "security group" a…

Bani Sapra   


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30 million Facebook accounts were hacked and people are furious

Others are pointing to the fact that Messenger Kids, its chat app for children, was called out for …

Nick Bastone   


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How To Set It Up So That Facebook Will Warn You When You're Being Hacked

Unfortunately, it happens. An AP study from 2011 revealed that one in three teenagers have been vic…

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Facebook users struggling to reactivate hacked accounts are buying $300 Oculus VR headsets just so they can talk to a customer service rep

Hacked Facebook users buy a VR headset from Facebook-owned Oculus, contact customer service to unlo…

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Here's How A Hacker Was Able To Take Over New Facebook Accounts In Just 15 Minutes

Again this only worked for unverified accounts, so Abhibandu had to do a bit of homework first to f…

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Fake verified Facebook pages luring users into clicking malicious links

Hacked verified accounts on Facebook are now impersonating Meta, purchasing ads on the social netwo…

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Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts got hacked after he made a basic security mistake

Don't want to make the same mistake as Zuck? Security experts recommend that you use a different, s…

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Facebook just announced it got hacked, and nearly 50 million accounts were compromised - here's how to tell if you were affected

The affected "access tokens" are what keep users logged into Facebook on their devices, and saves t…

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How to make sure your Facebook is as secure as possible

To decrease the likelihood of hacks, as well as the time it takes account holders to find suspiciou…

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Facebook employees reportedly feel guilty that the company didn't fix a known security risk fast enough to prevent its biggest data breach ever

According to the report, Facebook employees said concerns about the tokens were largely ignored, an…

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A Taiwanese hacker says he's going to delete Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account on Sunday and livestream the whole event

Zuckerberg's account has been compromised before. In 2011 a hacker broke in and wrote a status…

Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …   


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The Twitter accounts of 15 NFL teams have been hacked, and one hacking group is claiming to be behind all of them

The 15 NFL teams who accounts have been compromised include: the Arizona Cardinals; the Buffalo Bil…

Paige Leskin   


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Last president of Afghanistan says his Facebook account was hacked when it posted a message telling people to accept Taliban rule

Ashraf Ghani's Facebook page said the world must "extend a hand of friendship" to the Taliban regim…

Sinéad Baker   


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Facebook says it hasn't seen any evidence that the hackers used stolen keys to access users' Tinder, Spotify, or Instagram accounts

The news of the hack comes as Facebook attempts to recover from a string of bruising scandals, from…

Rob Price   


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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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A Texas mom claims a teacher sent her an anti-gay Facebook message after Orlando attacks

Then, on Monday, June 13, the day after the Orlando massacre, Watson posted a new development on Fa…

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The Syrian Electronic Army Hacked Obama's URL Shortener

A Twitter account claiming to be an official representative of the Syrian Electronic Army - a loose…