Facebook says that it has discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million accounts and that it's not yet clear whether any information was accessed or any accounts were otherwise misused.

An unusual traffic spike is what alerted Facebook engineers that something might be wrong, and it was an investigation into this heightened activity that led engineers to discover a massive ...

Security researchers suspect the breach affected even more people than Facebook estimated. Facebook would not say if the number of breached Facebook accounts is likely to grow. The unidentified ...

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler recently discovered an unprotected online database exposing over 184 million records ...

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

Over 184 million account credentials were exposed in an unsecured database, revealing sensitive information from platforms ...

The trove of data was found on an unmanaged server used by World Host Group. In a statement to Wired, the company’s CEO, Seb ...

and one count of misprision of felony for concealing the breach from authorities. Stamos, who is friends with Sullivan and took over his job as security chief at Facebook when Sullivan left for ...

Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users which the company disclosed back in September 2018.

Facebook said Friday it discovered a security breach that affects nearly 50 million user accounts. The issue was found by its engineering team on Tuesday afternoon. "We’re taking this incredibly ...