The database containing the compromised passwords was ironically unencrypted and not password-protected itself, a report said ...

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

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

Millions of people have been placed on high alert after reports that a data breach has taken place over many popular social ...

Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism degree from SUNY Oswego, he wrote credit card content for Credit Card Insider (now Money Tips) before ...

A 2019 Facebook data breach came back to haunt the company and affected users a few weeks ago when the data that hackers scraped from the site from more than 533 million accounts resurfaced online.

It now says the data breach was limited in scope, and would be unlikely to have any significant impact on its business or operations. While not directly refuting claims that the data included ...