Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, June 22, 2025: This story, originally published on ...

Your personal data is collected by almost every site or app you visit. The world is more data hungry than ever because it's now the most important asset, even more valuable than oil. Your shopping ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Aug. 29, 2024: This story, originally published Aug.

More than 184 million passwords may have been compromised in a massive data leak affecting everything from social media logins to bank accounts, according to a new report published by cybersecurity ...

This week, researchers from Cybernews have sounded the alarm on one of the largest data breaches in history, with over 16 billion login credentials exposed online. Although companies like Apple, ...

The issues keep piling up for Facebook. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac It’s time to change your Facebook and Instagram passwords again. Facebook revealed today that it unknowingly stored hundreds of ...

Across Facebook and Instagram, Meta has been storing more than half a billion users' passwords in plain text, with some easily readable for more than a decade. The issue was first uncovered in 2019 ...

Meta has been fined €91M ($101M) after it was discovered that to 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords had been stored in plain text. Some of those passwords had been unprotected since 2012, ...