Facebook hacked – Attackers exploited a vulnerability in the “View As” feature that allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens of 50 Million Users. Facebook hacked, this is news that is rapidly spreading across the Internet. A few hours ago, Facebook announced that an attack on its computer network exposed the personal information of roughly 50 million users. […]
Facebook removed 32 Facebook and Instagram accounts and pages that were involved in a coordinated operation aimed at influencing the midterm US elections Facebook has removed 32 Facebook and Instagram accounts and pages that were involved in a coordinated operation aimed at influencing the forthcoming midterm US elections. Facebook is shutting down content and accounts “engaged in coordinated […]
Facebook has been fined ÂŁ500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. for its conduct in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. Facebook has been fined ÂŁ500,000 in the U.K., the maximum fine allowed by the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, for failing to protect usersâ personal information. Political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica improperly collected data of 87 million Facebook users […]
Yesterday the social network giant Facebook started notifying 800,000 users affected by a blocking bug. The company has already fixed it. When a Facebook user blocks someone, the blocked user will be not able to interact with him, this means that he will not see his posts, it will not able to start conversations on Messenger or […]
On Friday, Facebook provided a 748-page long report to Congress that confirms the social network shared data with at least 61 tech firms after 2015. This is the worst period in the history of the social network, now Facebook admitted to having shared users’ data with 61 tech firms. The problem is that Facebook allowed tech companies […]
Experts discovered a third-party quiz app, called NameTests, that was found exposing data of up to 120 million Facebook users. A bug on the Nametests.com exposed data of over 120 million users who took personality quizzes on Facebook, the good news is that the flaw was addressed as part of the Facebookâs Data Abuse Bounty Program launched […]
Facebook admitted that a bug affecting its platform caused the change of the settings of some 14 million users, potentially exposing their private posts to the public. This is the worst period in the history of the social network giant that was involved in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal that affected at least 87 Million users. âWe […]
Facebook APIs granted access to the data belonging to FB users to more than 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, and Samsung so that they could implement Facebook messaging functions. After the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, Facebook is now facing new problems because it is accused of sharing user data with over 60 […]
The Nigelthorn malware has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries by abusing a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify. A new strain of malware, dubbed Nigelthorn malware because it abuses a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify, has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries, most of them in the Philippines, Venezuela, and Ecuador (Over 75%). The new […]
Cambridge Analytica, the commercial data analytics company at the centre of the Facebook privacy scandal, is ceasing all operations. Cambridge Analytica, the commercial data analytics company at the centre of the Facebook privacy scandal, is ceasing all operations. The commercial data analytics company Cambridge Analytica that was the protagonist of the biggest privacy scandal of […]