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Facebook exposed millions of Instagram passwords

San Francisco: A day after admitting it “unintentionally” uploaded emails of nearly 1.5 million of new users, Facebook has now revealed that millions of Instagram passwords were stored on its servers in a readable format. Last month, Facebook said that it fixed a security issue wherein millions of its users’ passwords were stored in plain text […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Facebook keeps aside $3 bn ahead of US FTC fine

San Francisco: Battling several privacy violations, Facebook has kept aside $3 billion, anticipating a record fine coming from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) related to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal that involved 87 million users. “In the first quarter of 2019, we reasonably estimated a probable loss and recorded an accrual of $3 billion in […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
Facebook removes 265 Israel-based fake accounts

San Francisco: Facebook has said it has removed 265 Facebook and Instagram accounts, Facebook Pages, Groups and events that originated in Israel and were involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour.   This activity originated in Israel and focused on Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia along with some activity in Latin America and Southeast Asia. “The […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Millions of Instagram users' data leaked, company probing

New Delhi: After Facebook that is battling several data breaches, its photo-sharing service Instagram saw itself in trouble after personal data of millions of celebrities and influencers were allegedly exposed on its platform in a massive database that was traced to Mumbai-based social media marketing firm Chtrbox. The database contained 49 million records of several high-profile […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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