235 Million Instagram, YouTube users' data exposed in a new data breach: Know details
4 years, 4 months ago

235 Million Instagram, YouTube users' data exposed in a new data breach: Know details

India TV News  

As part of a recent data breach, millions of users' social media data including popular names such as Instagram, YouTube, and even TikTok got exposed. Read on to know more about the new data breach that has affected 235 million users. Instagram, YouTube data leaked It is suggested that the database comprised web scrapped data of users by a now-shut company called Deep Social. The data included four different datasets with information such as the profile name, full name, images, age, gender, account description, profile statistics to monitor engagement, and 20% of users' numbers or email IDs.

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Facebook faces another user data leak, researchers reveal
7 months ago

Facebook faces another user data leak, researchers reveal

India TV News  

Cybersecurity researchers have reported an alleged data leak which involve at least one lakh users of Facebook which appeared on a data breach forum. The team from CyberPeace, a New Delhi-based non-profit organisation alleged that 1,00,000 lines of fresh user data from Facebook have surfaced on a data breach forum. “Facebook faces potential reputational damage due to concerns about data …

AT&T admits massive data leak of customers on dark web. What details exposed?
9 months, 1 week ago

AT&T admits massive data leak of customers on dark web. What details exposed?

Hindustan Times  

AT&T Inc. disclosed that personal data from approximately 7.6 million existing account holders and 65.4 million former customers has been leaked onto the dark web. The telecommunications giant announced on Saturday that a dataset, discovered on the "dark web," contains sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, belonging to about 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former account …

‘Mother of All Breaches’: 26 billion data records from X, MySpace stolen
11 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Mother of All Breaches’: 26 billion data records from X, MySpace stolen

Hindustan Times  

A cybersecurity researcher has reportedly discovered a leak of 26 billion records, making it to be the ‘mother of all breaches’. This breach reported by Bob Dyachenko, the owner of SecurityDiscovery.com is beyond mere credentials, exposing highly sensitive data that holds significant value for malicious actors. The leaked data records go beyond mere credentials, containing highly sensitive information that could …

Twitter Deny Data Leak Hack Sold Online Researcher Alon Gal
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter Deny Data Leak Hack Sold Online Researcher Alon Gal

ABP News  

Twitter has denied a data leak that apparently hit 200 million of its users and their information was being sold online. The data hack that resulted in 200 million names and email IDs of Twitter users was not a result of a security bug on the micro-blogging platform's systems, Twitter has said. ".Therefore, based on information and intel analyzed to …

Twitter says no evidence new user data leaks were obtained via system bug
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter says no evidence new user data leaks were obtained via system bug

The Hindu  

Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company's systems. Another 600 million pieces of user data "could not be correlated with the previously reported incident, nor with any new incident," Twitter said in a blog post. The social media company told users in …

What is wrong with Twitter? 200 mn users' data leaked and sold for $200K on Dark Web
2 years ago

What is wrong with Twitter? 200 mn users' data leaked and sold for $200K on Dark Web

India TV News  

Cyber-security researchers have found a data dump comprising over 200 million Twitter users, that was earlier being sold for $200,000. "The vulnerability in Twitter's API, enabled threat actors to input phone number/email address to retrieve the Twitter user ID which in turn enables data scraping," said a CloudSEK researcher. On January 4, a new user on the hacker forum with …

Twitter Data Breach: Account Details Of 200 Million Users — Including Sundar Pichai, Donald Trump Jr. — Leaked
2 years ago

Twitter Data Breach: Account Details Of 200 Million Users — Including Sundar Pichai, Donald Trump Jr. — Leaked

ABP News  

Twitter appears to have been breached yet again. In the latest instance, a hacker calling himself StayMad has reportedly leaked the personal data of over 200 million users, including high profile accounts such as Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Donald Trump Jr., SpaceX, CBS Media, NBA, WHO, and more. Israeli cyber intelligence firm Hudson Rock called this one of the "most …

Twitter Hit By Massive Data Breach That Exposed Information Of 5.4 Million Users
2 years, 5 months ago

Twitter Hit By Massive Data Breach That Exposed Information Of 5.4 Million Users

ABP News  

Micro-blogging site Twitter was hit by a massive data breach that allowed an attacker to access sensitive information of about 5.4 million Twitter users. It should be noted that even as Twitter has acknowledged the data leak, the sensitive data of a whopping 5.4 million Twitter users still remains exposed in the hands of a malicious hacker. According to a …

Who was stealing data from Facebook, Instagram?
2 years, 6 months ago

Who was stealing data from Facebook, Instagram?

India TV News  

Meta has reportedly sued Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese high-tech enterprise, and a Turkish individual for scraping data from Instagram, Facebook and other big tech platforms from the company. "Octopus offers to scrape data from Amazon, eBay, Twitter, Yelp, Google, Target, Walmart, Indeed, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram," Meta said in a statement late on Tuesday. It included data …

Explained | How Facebook’s recent data breach affect its users
3 years, 8 months ago

Explained | How Facebook’s recent data breach affect its users

The Hindu  

Facebook has suffered yet another data breach, only this time, private information from 533 million accounts have been leaked online. Even the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s private credentials are part of the larger leaked data set from 2019. Private information of users was primarily obtained by exploiting Facebook’s contact importer feature that allows users to find friends on …

Personal data of 500 million LinkedIn users leaked online
3 years, 9 months ago

Personal data of 500 million LinkedIn users leaked online

India Today  

Only a couple of days ago, Facebook was involved in a massive data breach that compromised the personal data of 533 million users. As per reports, over 500 million LinkedIn users' data were compromised in a huge data leak. As per CyberNews, Linkedin has been a part of a massive data breach that has exposed crucial data of 500 million …

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
55 years ago

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?

Wired  

Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. Or was it the 419 million Facebook user records, including hundreds of millions of phone numbers, names, and Facebook IDs, scraped from the social network by bad actors before a 2018 Facebook policy change, that were exposed publicly …

Facebook data leak includes personal info of 6 million users in India, the story so far
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook data leak includes personal info of 6 million users in India, the story so far

India Today  

The latest Facebook data breach is claimed to have leaked the personal data of over 533 million users globally. In a country-wise breakup, the claimed data breach reportedly includes the personal information of 6 million users in India. Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, posted information around the data breach that is said to have leaked data …

Explained: Leaked Data of 533mn Facebook Users Reemerges Online, Why FB's Reply is Unconvincing
3 years, 9 months ago

Explained: Leaked Data of 533mn Facebook Users Reemerges Online, Why FB's Reply is Unconvincing

News 18  

Facebook is back in the limelight for all the wrong reasons, and this time, a new report claims that the personal data of over 533 million users have surfaced on a hacker forum, practically for free of cost. Both the Business Insider team and Gal reportedly reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known …

Instagram is ‘most invasive app’, new study shows
3 years, 9 months ago

Instagram is ‘most invasive app’, new study shows

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Instagram has topped a list of “invasive” apps that collect and share users’ …

Agency homing in on social media companies’ data collection
4 years ago

Agency homing in on social media companies’ data collection

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are ordering Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok’s parent and five other social media companies to provide detailed information on how they collect and use consumers’ personal data and how their practices affect children and teens. With its new request, the FTC wants to know how social media and video streaming services collect, use and track consumers’ personal …

Instagram Bans United States Firm For Improper Data Collection
5 years, 5 months ago

Instagram Bans United States Firm For Improper Data Collection

ABP News  

San Francisco: Facebook-owned Instagram has banned a San Francisco-based company from its platform on charges of improper user-data collection. Called Hyp3r, the start-up scraped public data such as users' physical locations, profile information and photos to serve better targeted ads. Information collected by Hyp3r also includes data stored in Instagram Stories that is content designed to disappear after 24 hours. …

Twitter apologises and admits to user data leak
5 years, 5 months ago

Twitter apologises and admits to user data leak

India TV News  

Twitter admits to inadvertently sharing users data with advertising and third-party partners, owing to the breach and identify privacy flaw and regretting the outcome. As per Twitter's blog post posted on Tuesday, the user information that could have been shared without permission could include country code and details of users engagement with ad and information about the ad. Also, read: …

Instagram influencers' data leak traced back to Mumbai-based marketing firm Chtrbox
5 years, 7 months ago

Instagram influencers' data leak traced back to Mumbai-based marketing firm Chtrbox

Firstpost  

Chtrbox says that the database did not include any sensitive personal data except for what influencers shared on the public domain. According to a report by Economic Times, Chtrbox says that database of ’limited influencers’ was exposed for approximately three days, however, it did not include any sensitive personal data. Our use of our database is limited to help our …

Millions of Instagram users' data leaked, company probing
5 years, 7 months ago

Millions of Instagram users' data leaked, company probing

India TV News  

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 influencers, including prominent food bloggers, celebrities …

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