Cyber Hacking News
Bank of Zambia confirms hacking of its Facebook page
The Bank of Zambia (BOZ) has confirmed the hacking of its Facebook page and has urged members of the public not to interact with the affected…
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Meta fined €1.2bn for violating GDPR
The fine from Ireland’s privacy regulator is a record for breach of EU data protection regulation.
Cyber Security
Researcher awarded $27,000 bounty for 2FA bypass vulnerability
Facebook two-factor authentication bypass issue patched.
Cyber Security
Facebook to settle Cambridge Analytica data leak for $725M
Meta platform, the parent company of Facebook, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle the class-action lawsuit filed in 2018 over the Cambridge Analytica data…
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Irish data protection commission fines Meta for data breach
Meta fined €265M for not protecting Facebook users' data.
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Meta blocks Russian state-media accounts in Ukraine
Russian-state media are blocked from advertising and making money on its platforms.
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Meta agrees to pay $90 M to settle decade-old privacy lawsuit
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit over the company's use of cookies to allegedly track Facebook…
Cyber Security
Meta sues people behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Phishing
Facebook's parent company Meta has filed a federal lawsuit in California against hackers who operated more than 39,000 phishing websites that impersonated the login pages of…
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Meta disables operations of seven surveillance-for-hire firms
Meta has disrupted the operations of seven different spyware-making companies, blocking their Internet infrastructure, sending cease letters, and banning them from its platform. Director of Threat…
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Meta expands bug-bounty program to include Data Scraping
Facebook to pay hackers for reporting Data Scraping bugs and Scraped Datasets.
