Thousands of Facebook users who have been unable to access their accounts for nearly a week and a half now are now seeing their profiles restored--but some data related to recent profile updates may ...

Cybercriminals left an ElasticSearch database exposed, revealing a global attack that compromised Facebook accounts and used them to scam others. Researchers have uncovered a wide-ranging global scam ...

The sensitive user data has popped back up on a new server The sensitive user data has popped back up on a new server is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and ...

Chances are that if you have a Facebook account, then Facebook's parent company Meta has your contact information. Even if you chose not to share that data, some of your friends have likely shared ...

A security researcher reportedly found the more than 419 million records in an unprotected database Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ personal information — including phone numbers, name and ...

Facebook continues to pull back the curtain on some of the technical details behind its search products, this time with a new look at the Social Graph. See also: Understanding Unicorn: A deep dive ...

An unsecured database with account details relating to 267 million Facebook Inc. users has been found online and has already been shared on a hacking forum. Discovered and publicized today by security ...

This week, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter announced a new database for images and videos that promote terrorism. The database, which is hosted by Facebook, is designed as a defense against ...

Millions of phone numbers associated with Facebook accounts have been discovered in an exposed database. A server that wasn’t protected by a password was found to contain over 419 million records from ...

Recently we described an idea called the database of affinity: A catalogue of people’s tastes and preferences collected by observing their social behaviors on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Why are ...