IANS- Sanyam Jain, a security researcher at The Hague-based non-profit organization GDI Foundation, has discovered a massive database containing over 419 million phone numbers of Facebook users on an unsecured server, available for anyone to access. The database included 133 million records of US-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the United Kingdom, […]
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Hand Over Data Privacy Records: US Judge Tells Facebook
IANS- A US judge has asked Facebook to hand over data privacy records related to the massive Cambridge Analytica scandal. According to a report in Engadget on Friday, Facebook shareholders in September 2018 sued the social networking platform to obtain information pertaining to the data leak of 87 million users. “Today, a US judge sided […]
Facebook under lens for ‘covering up’ data scandal
IANS- Federal prosecutors in the US are now probing whether top executives of Facebook, mired in data breaches, were aware of data harvesting by the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. According to a report in The Guardian on Sunday, federal prosecutors’ investigation claims that the social media giant has “covered up” the extent […]