The file was left entirely unprotected - no encryption, no password, no safeguards - just a plain text document holding ...

A public, non-password-protected database revealed 184 million account details in a silent leak that could fuel major phishing campaigns.

Data scraped from an exposed Facebook database containing user phone numbers and information that linked those phone numbers to names and other profile information has popped back up in a separate ...

Facebook also believes that, because of numerous duplicates, the total number of phone numbers found online more likely amount to about half of the total number TechCrunch reported – still ...

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 ...

Its database mostly contains digital fingerprints of videos and images related to groups on the U.N. Security Council's consolidated sanctions list and a few specific live-streamed attacks, such ...

By Nate Elliott 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 when Facebook decided to use Hbase instead of Cassandra for its messaging system, it took a little sheen off the database. But even as the NoSQL hype faded, Cassandra kept chugging along ...

A downed Facebook database left a small but vocal percentage of its userbase without access to the social network for as long as 10 days.

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion photos from social media to build its facial recognition database. US police have used the database nearly a million times, the company's CEO told the BBC.

More than 260 million U.S. Facebook users’ IDs, phone numbers, and names were exposed to an online database that could potentially be used for spam and phishing campaigns. Comparitech reports ...

An SMS routing company's exposed database was left online without a password, spilling 2FA codes and password reset links to the open web. ... including Facebook and WhatsApp, ...