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Meta Fined €265 million in Facebook Data Scraping Case in the EU
The incident led to the publication of data on Irish police, sitting judges, prison officers, social workers, journalists, and others, leading to a spike in scam calls and texts in Ireland.
November 28, 2022
Leaky Server Exposing Scraped Data of 150,000 Mastodon Users
At the time of writing, the server was actively being updated with more data!
November 18, 2022
Some Meta Employees and Security Guards Hacked User Accounts
The fired individuals included on-contract security guards who worked for Meta and could access an internal tool for employees.
November 18, 2022
TikTok’s In-App Browser Can Monitor Your Activity on External Websites
Other iPhone apps using in-app browsers were also tested in the research but TikTok was the only app to monitor keystrokes.
August 22, 2022
Twitter Confirms Data Breach as 5.4M Accounts Sold on Hacker Forum
Twitter was forced to investigate the incident when a hacker offered the personal details of 5.4 million Twitter…
August 7, 2022
Facebook Phishing Scam: Crooks Using Messenger Chatbots to Steal Login Data
The new phishing scam uses malicious and fake chatbots to steal login credentials of unsuspected Facebook users through…
June 29, 2022
Why you need to install and use Instagram story saver
It is quite difficult to deny the fact that we live in the age of the Internet. According to analytics…
April 11, 2022
Indian PM Modi’s Twitter Account HACKED for Bitcoin scam
This was the second time that a Twitter account linked to PM Modi got compromised for a Bitcoin-related scam.
December 13, 2021
Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users’ data
Facebook tracked down the programmer after he mistakenly used the same username and contact information on email and job portals.
October 25, 2021
Data analytics firm exposed 2m Instagram and TikTok users’ data
The victims of this "data leak" also include celebrities like Alicia Keys, Loren Gray, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, and Kim Kardashian.
October 21, 2021