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Facebook quietly updated a March blog post to say that the passwords of millions of Instagram users were stored in a readable format on its servers.

Facebook admitted to uploading the email address books of 1.5 million users, which may have included the email contacts of hundreds of millions of people.

A court in Moscow issued a $50 fine to Facebook for violating a data privacy law that requires information about Russian users to be kept on servers in Russia.

Cisco Talos revealed how cyber criminals established dozens of Facebook groups with a collective 385,000 members--and how the social network responded to them.

UpGuard revealed that information about 540 million Facebook users gathered by Cultura Colectiva was publicly accessible via an unprotected Amazon S3 bucket.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing marketers to target ads.

A man plead guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering after stealing $99 million from Facebook and $23 million from Google.

Facebook confirmed that the passwords of hundreds of millions of users were stored in plain text, but denied that its employees improperly accessed them.

Despite saying phone numbers used for 2FA wouldn't be used for anything else, Facebook actually uses those numbers to help people find their friends' accounts.

Facebook's chief AI researcher told Bloomberg the company is working on a semiconductor design made specifically to handle the mass amounts of data used by AI.