Month: May 2021

Some personal information just doesn’t age – here’s what the Facebook data leak may mean for you ‘Half a billion Facebook users’ data breached’, this or something very similar is a headline you may have seen in the media in recent days. Any data breach, especially one that affects such a large quantity of users,…

The treasure trove of data reportedly includes users’ LinkedIn IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers and workplace information Mere days after news broke of a data leak that impacted more than half a billion Facebook users, another massive batch of people’s personal information is being offered for sale on a hacking forum. This time…

Reports of another trove of scraped user data add to the recent woes of popular social media platforms It seems that threat actors are increasingly setting their sights on extracting vast amounts of user data from social media platforms. The cascade of incidents started off last week with a data leak impacting more than half…