Facebook, as it was then known, thought about paying users of its apps directly for the trove of data it collected and leveraged to maintain its place as one of the largest and most successful ...

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 security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users, TechCrunch has found. The exposed data included users’ display names, dates of birth, ...

In 2025, it feels like cybercriminals are winning while the world's biggest data hoarders are losing. One by one, global giants are admitting they've been breached, from tech powerhouses like Google ...

Update, Dec. 26, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 24 now includes additional information regarding how to recover an inactive account you can’t remember the password for before it gets ...

The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information. Duolingo is one of the largest ...

OpenAI has acknowledged that a security incident at its analytics partner Mixpanel exposed data about some users of its services, including ChatGPT and its API. The company is now trying to reassure ...

A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies ...

This latest breach shouldn't be easily dismissed, especially for users posting controversial things under anonymous accounts. Just weeks ago, a dataset allegedly containing the email addresses and ...