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 ...

Facebook has reportedly suffered yet another privacy hit: A new report claims that more than 540 million user records were exposed on a public database. UpGuard cyber risk researchers say two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook went offline for the second time in two days yesterday. The Thursday outage–which lasted more than two hours for some users–is a tale of a database control gone awry and illustrates the need ...

Facebook’s long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a first step toward addressing a problem intrinsic to a social network built on the viral sharing of user posts. The ...