Firms Downloading Details Of 100m Facebook Accounts

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has had his private photos exposed thanks to a flaw in the way the social network handles the reporting of indecent images. The bug in the system has been around for a couple of weeks now and...

South Korea based MapleStory was at the receiving end of a cyber attack last week and personal information of more than three-quarter users of the website have been put at risk. Usernames, IDs, passwords, as well as residential...

The European Commission is set to pass a law clamping down on the way Facebook gathers data about its users to pass on to advertisers. At present, the social network 'eavesdrops' on its 800 million subscribers using...

Zynga, the largest game developer on social networking platform Facebook, has been hit by a class-action lawsuit for allegedly sharing personal data on million Facebook US users with third party online tracking websites. The...

With the appearance this week on a torrent site of a list containing the user names and profile addresses of more than 100 million Facebook users, attention has returned to the thorny business of keeping your private details...

Social networking giant Facebook has been urged to take more substantial steps to improve user privacy.A number of privacy advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier...

Facebook was forced to disable its live chat service temporarily yesterday, after a security flaw was discovered that put users' privacy at risk. The offending bug allowed users to snoop on their friends' live chat and see the...

After the user backlash suffered by Google after the launch of its new social networking tool Buzz over suspected privacy flaws, the software giant appears to be in serious trouble. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has...

In the light of Facebook announcing fresh updates for its privacy tool last week, the social networking site has come under fire from security experts who believe that the update has left a gaping hole for hackers to access...

It seems that the erstwhile outcry over changing the site's terms and conditions has made Facebook extremely conscious about its users' privacy, as the social networking giant is planning to bring some notable changes in its...

A survey conducted by online advertising company Burstmedia found out that the overwhelming number of adults were concerned about their privacy online and how data about them was handled. The survey, based on a sample of 4000...

Facebook developer Charlie Cheever announced on the site that since Friend Connect works on the principle of redistributing user content without prior permission from the user, Facebook will not be supporting the project as of...

Social networking website Facebook claims to have fixed the privacy problems that have dogged it in recent weeks.Users reported that it was impossible to delete all their information from the site, but Facebook says that total...

Social networking site Facebook has said that it will no longer automatically tell people's friends of their online activities after an outcry claiming that its new advertising service was a violation of users' privacy.The site...

Online watchdog Moveon.org argues that Facebook's Beacon or Social Ads ad program, which seamlessly and automatically sends messages to friends and acquaintances, when a user buys an item from a partner website, violates personal...