In yet another blow to Facebook, the latest Instagram breach exposed sensitive data of at least 49 million users when an AWS database was found online without a password for at least 72 hours.
Researchers at Check Point and Facebook discovered an Instagram bug that could allow hackers to conduct account takeover attacks and turn mobile devices into spying tools.
Even though the recent Instagram data leak only expose contact information of millions of users, knowledge of phone numbers could create a pathway for SIM swap attacks.
Recent Instagram data scraping by HYP3R has raised many privacy concerns as the trusted Facebook marketing partner was found scraping and re-packaging social media data for advertisers.
The lone strong biometric privacy law in the United States has struck again, this time taking $68.5 million from Instagram in a settlement for a class action first filed nearly three years ago.
Insurance administrator Landmark Admin confirms that the May 2024 data breach stemming from a ransomware attack leaked the personal information of over 800,000 individuals.
America's second largest insurance company Prudential Financial has disclosed a security breach by a cybercrime gang that leaked administrative, employee, and contractors’ data.
The Intel Alder Lake data leak first appeared as a 2.8 GB zip (expanding to 5.86 GB) posted by an unknown party to 4Chan. Intel has since confirmed that it is a genuine source code leak.
The prospects for a federal privacy bill actually being signed into law in the United States in 2019 just took another big step forward with a proposal from Intel.
An Android app leak indicates that plans for ChatGPT ads are at least in the works. The 1.2025.329 beta version's code lists references to over a dozen APIs that appear to explicitly be about serving ads.
