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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
Facebook down with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp service disruption
Facebook down? Yes, Facebook is down along with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR due to DNS-related issues.…
October 4, 2021
How to use VPN to access blocked websites?
This article highlights easy ways to bypass censorship, especially how one can use VPN to access blocked websites.
September 17, 2021
Hacker pleads guilty to sim swapping, stealing cryptocurrency
A 21-year old hacker has admitted running a campaign over social media to hijack accounts of "high-value" account names and steal cryptocurrency.
August 16, 2021
WhatsApp Introduces View Once Feature for Videos and Photos
View Once feature will keep the images accessible for a maximum of 14 days, and they will expire afterward.
August 4, 2021
Hackers leak scraped data of 87,000 GETTR users
GETTR has been attacked twice since its launch on July 4th, 2021. Here's what Hackread.com's exclusive analysis reveals.
July 8, 2021
A hacker is selling 700 million LinkedIn users accounts
LinkedIn has not suffered data breach but the records being sold are collected through data scraping technique.
June 29, 2021
Fake ransom scams targeting families of missing persons
FBI has issued an alert to families of missing persons to watch out for fake ransom scams in which scammers collect information about missing people from social media.
May 20, 2021
Facebook ads used in spreading Facebook Messenger phishing scam
So far, the phishing scam has targeted users in 80 countries.
April 21, 2021