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2019 was a tumultuous year for Facebook as it continued to grapple with privacy fallout after Cambridge Analytica, as well as dealing with a slew of security challenges.

Facebook and Twitter on Friday said they had blocked multiple government-backed manipulation operations around the world, several of which favored US President Donald Trump, as part of a crackdown...

Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.

Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.

Security Researchers Say Criminal Group Scraped Phone Numbers and Other DataAn unsecured Elasticsearch database exposed the identities and phone numbers of over 267 million Facebook users for...

Will Dispute Over Sharing European's Data With US Continue?Facebook's sharing of data of European users with the U.S. is legal and provides enough protections, the legal adviser to the EU's top...

An unprotected Elasticsearch database that was accessible from the Internet was recently found to store information on over 267 million Facebook users, Comparitech reveals. read more

Lithuanian bloke gets half a decade for the mother of all phishing schemes A Lithuanian hacker will spend the next five years behind bars for masterminding a massive $120m (£92.05m) business email...

Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!

Researchers believe that criminals were able to obtain personal information for millions of Facebook users.