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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook does not plan to notify its customers who may be among the half a billion users whose personal information was exposed after being posted to a website used by hackers.

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 ...