Data on 540 million Facebook users exposed
Security researchers disclosed on April 3, 2019 that two collections of Facebook-related information had been left in publicly accessible Amazon Web Services storage. The larger collection, held by Mexican digital publisher Cultura…
Facebook and Instagram suffer most severe outage ever
Facebook’s family of services suffered an unusually long global disruption on March 13 and 14, 2019. People could sometimes open Facebook or Instagram but could not reliably publish posts, upload photographs, send…
Facebook demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords
Some people creating Facebook accounts in early 2019 encountered a startling verification request: enter the password for the external email address used during sign-up. The screen presented the step as an automatic…
Facebook to reveal News Feed algorithmic program secrets
Facebook is launching a brand new feature that explains how its algorithms decide what to show in your News Feed. A new “Why am I seeing this post?” button will indicate what activity influenced…