Instagram Glitch Reportedly Exposed Contact Info of Zuckerberg and Other Users

Instagram glitch exposed Mark Zuckerberg’s email addresses and phone number, plus contact details of other top users, through a password reset flaw...

The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem

Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED reveal how unprepared local authorities were...

Meta takes down 63,000 sextortion-related accounts on Instagram

Meta announced the take-down of 63,000 sextortion-related Instagram accounts in Nigeria alone. The action was directed against a group known as Yahoo Boys, a loosely organized set of cybercriminals that largely operate out of Nigeria and specialize in different types of scams. Meta took down a ho...

End-to-End Encrypted Instagram and Messenger Chats: Why It Took Meta 7 Years

Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right...

Meta Launches Default End-to-End Encryption for Chats and Calls on Messenger

Meta has officially begun to roll out support for end-to-end encryption E2EE in Messenger for personal calls and one-to-one personal messages by default in what it called the "most significant milestone yet." "This isn't a routine security update: we rebuilt the app from the ground up, in close...

Meta Set to Enable Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger by Year End

Meta has once again reaffirmed its plans to roll out support for end-to-end encryption E2EE by default for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year. As part of that effort, the social media giant said it's upgrading "millions more people's chats" effective August 22...

How to Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account

If you've finally hit your breaking point, here's how to say goodbye to Mark Zuckerberg's empire...

Facebook's Zuckerberg Says He's Got Election Stuff Under Control

Facebook rolls out its plan to protect the US from November mayhem...

DNC Hackers Resurface, Zuckerberg Talks Free Speech, and More News

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Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

9 Questions for Facebook After Zuckerberg’s Privacy Manifesto

On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision for a very different Facebook—with a lot of unknowns about how to get there...

Hacker vows to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account; reports it for bounty instead

By Waqas Hacker Cancels Plan to Live Stream Deletion of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Account. It was just yesterday when Facebook announced that it was hacked after attackers exploited a vulnerability in its View As feature and gained access to over 50 million accounts. Now, a well-known hacker fro...

Facebook Introduces “Clear History” Option Amid Data Scandal

Facebook unveiled new updates to its social-media platform this week aimed at securing private data – including a new privacy control called “Clear History.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the new data privacy measure in a post. Clear History essentially brings the capabilities that users are...

WhatsApp Group Video Call and Instagram Video Chat Are Coming Soon

Facebook announced a whole lot of new features at its 2018 Facebook F8 developers conference, including Dating on Facebook, letting users clear their web browsing history, real-time language translation within Messenger, and many more. Besides announcing exciting features for its social media...

How to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress this week to explain how his company collects and handles users' personal information. The past few weeks have been difficult for Facebook over concerns that the data of millions of users has been breached. Facebook stores details of almos...

Privacy Advocates Blast Facebook After Data Scraping Scandal

Privacy advocates are up in arms after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week a Facebook reverse search tool may have compromised the data of the social network’s two billion users. The feature in question was designed to enable users to enter a Facebook user’s phone numbers or email addresses into t...

Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook scans user private messages

By Waqas If you thought your conversations on Facebook Messenger are private This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook scans user private messages...

Facebook Bug Declares Millions of Users Dead, Including Zuckerberg!

Last night, Facebook declared everyone dead, including the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a massive memorial 'remembering' profile glitch. Well, that's awkward. Despite being very much alive, Facebook users, when logged on to their accounts on Friday afternoon, found their accounts turned to a...

Photo reveals even Zuckerberg tapes his Webcam and Microphone for Privacy

What do you do to protect your 'Privacy' and keep yourself safe from potential hackers? Well, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just need a bit of tape to cover his laptop webcam and mic jack in order to protect his privacy. Yes, Zuck also does the same as the FBI Director James Comey. Zuckerberg post...

Twitter Ex-CEO Dick Costolo Got Hacked!

The same group of teenage hackers that hacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts have hacked another the Twitter account of another high-profile person. This time, it's Twitter's ex-CEO, Dick Costolo. The hacker group from Saudi Arabia, dubbed OurMine, compromised Twitt...