Facebook Breach
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Facebook acknowledges personal information of 500M users posted online, says data is ‘old’Facebook acknowledged the news in an emailed statement Saturday afternoon, but said the data was obtained during a breach in 2019.TechApr 3, 2021
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419 million Facebook records containing user phone numbers exposed online: reportsFacebook used to allow people to search for each other using phone numbers. The numbers are believed to have been exposed before that feature was shut down.WorldSep 5, 2019
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Facebook says new security breach affects 50 million usersFacebook on Friday says 50 million user accounts have been affected by a security breach.TechSep 28, 2018
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Facebook data scandal researcher Aleksandr Kogan says he’s just a ‘scapegoat’Facebook has been rocked this week by a whistleblower who said that Cambridge Analytica, a British-based firm hired by Trump for his election campaign, had improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to build detailed profiles on American voters.PoliticsMar 21, 2018
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