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If you are a member of any group on the social media website Facebook, your personal data might have been improperly accessed by some 100 app developers. Today, Facebook announced another data breach and said that as many as 100 third-party app developers might have accessed and retained user information including users’ names and profile […]
An exposed server on the web was found leaking the data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users. First reported by TechCrunch, the exposed server was discovered by security researcher Sanyam Jain who said that the database contained phone numbers of some celebrities as well. Along with contact numbers, the database also contained Facebook IDs […]
It’s a new day and Facebook is featured in the news yet again (for the wrong reasons of course!). The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company has been found leaking data of millions of users to third-parties. According to a report by Research Firm UpGuard, two sets of user data has been discovered which was exposed to all. […]
When Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal started blazing up headlines, many Facebook critics and security experts called it just a beginning. That prophecy is turning out to be accurate as a dubious quiz application, named NameTests, has ended up exposing data of about 120 million users for years. As per Inti De Ceukelaire, the security researcher who uncovered the […]
While numerous concerns had been raised over the uninformed data collection of over 87 million Facebook users, the actual number of people affected may be far more. The CA data breach came to light when the company’s former director of research Christopher Wylie took charge and went into Edward Snowden-mode to break the news. It […]
It seems like Facebook’s troubles aren’t going to end any time soon. Another data collecting firm named CubeYou has been suspended by Facebook after CNBC reported the company of CubeYou’s data harvesting activity through quizzes. Reportedly, the data analytics company was slurping millions of users’ personal information through personality quizzes such as ‘You Are What You […]