The Facebook data breach that affected almost 30 million users last month was different from other recent data breaches in a way that concerns security and privacy experts—and should worry consu ...

“The easiest way to boost security would be to change your Facebook password but it is always a good idea to sift out old data, make more things private and even purge out connections,” says ...

A hacker claims to sell 1.2 billion Facebook records. Meta says it's old, but experts warn the data is real and dangerous.

Facebook said it did not know who the hacker was, or how the data has been accessed, but it was a very “large scale” and complex attack on three discrete bugs in the company’s security systems.

Tripwire CTO Dwayne Melancon explains: “The Facebook breach highlights the ‘weakest link’ syndrome with information security. As the number of indirect connections and relationships between ...

Thorough cybersecurity takes more than tech: That’s the thinking at Facebook, where Chief Global Security Officer Nick Lovrien deploys physical security to protect data. Yes, canine units and ...

The file was unencrypted. No password protection. No security. Just a plain text file with millions of sensitive pieces of ...

Nearly 200,000,000 passwords have been exposed after digital thieves stole data tied to some of the world’s biggest tech ...

And Facebook admits that it did not notify users that their data had been compromised individually or through an official company security bulletin. The Irish Data Protection Commission said in ...

It believes it has fixed the security vulnerability ... all kinds of sensitive information could have been breached. As Facebook investigates the breach, it will be interesting to see the ...

(Jeff Chiu/AP) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review whether shareholders can revive a lawsuit accusing Facebook of misleading them about the risk associated with user data ...