The 2019 breach exposed the personal information of 533 million Facebook users across 157 countries through a technique known as "scraping." Attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's contact ...

If you used Facebook at any time during a 15-year period, keep an eye on your bank account. Settlement payments related to the several-years-old Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal are starting to ...

Facebook users are bombarded with targeted ads from nearly 200,000 companies, according to a first-of-its-kind study that revealed the vast scale of data tracking on the Meta-owned social network.

A team of statistical researchers at Meta, owner of Facebook, working with colleagues from the University of Hong Kong and Harvard University, has applied a specially designed algorithm to analyze ...

One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...