Tag: #FacebookBreach
The Facebook data breach has reportedly exposed personal details of over 1.2 billion users, triggering a significant cybersecurity alert. The breach, allegedly orchestrated by a hacker named “ByteBreaker,” involves a vast database now being sold on the dark web, making it potentially the largest unauthorized Facebook data leak to date. What Was Leaked? Cybersecurity researchers […]
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) has been fined €91 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for improperly storing user passwords in plaintext, violating multiple General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) articles. The penalty stems from a 2019 incident, where Meta discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords were left unsecured on its internal systems. […]