Facebook says it stored “millions” of unencrypted Instagram passwords on internal servers “Millions” of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands. “We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this […]
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive outage
Social networking services Facebook and Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp Sunday evening faced a global outage, including in Pakistan. All three major social media platforms, which have more than two billion users worldwide, went inaccessible after the outage reported from Pakistan as well as many other countries including India, United Kingdom and Europe. Facebook and […]
EU’s new data protection rules come into effect
The European Union’s new data protection laws came into effect on Friday, with Brussels saying the changes will protect consumers from being like “people naked in an aquarium”. The EU’s so-called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been blamed for a flood of spam emails and messages in recent weeks as firms rush to request […]
Cambridge Analytica files for voluntary bankruptcy in US: court filing
British political consulting group Cambridge Analytica filed for voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York, court documents showed. The firm, whose attorney filed late Wednesday, announced early May that it would close and file for bankruptcy in Britain and the United States after failing to recover from the Facebook data scandal. […]
Facebook data breach, Cambridge Analytica and Pakistan connection, explained
All hells have broken loose since the Cambridge Analytica scandal hit the news. Facebook stocks declined with the social media giant ending up losing billions of dollars on its stock value, investors pulling out, lawmakers in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) calling for investigations and a public uproar following #DeleteFacebook campaign […]