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Mozilla has announced an integration of the breach alerting service Have I Been Pwned to alert users about data breaches through the Firefox UI and offer educational information.

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Recent news of a massive data breach has made some Facebook users wonder: What does Facebook know about me, and how can I control it?

In March 2018, news surfaced of a data breach that resulted in data of about 50 million Facebook users getting into the hands of voter - targeting consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Technology website Recode first reported Thursday that Yahoo planned to disclose details about a data breach affecting hundreds of millions of users.

The bigger issue is that Facebook had known about the data leak as early as two years ago, but did nothing to inform its users — because the violation was not a «breach» of Facebook's security protocols.

Facebook found out about Cambridge Analytica's breach in 2015, but it didn't notify users who had their data taken without their permission.

News about the data breach sparked a public outcry and prompted many of Facebook's 2.1 billion users to reevaluate how they use the massive social media platform, and whether the company should be trusted with so much personal information.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) brought up specific potential rules and regulations — the Honest Ads Act, which she and other lawmakers put forth in October to institute new rules on political ads, and the idea of requiring companies to inform users of a data breach within 72 hours, which is in a European law that is about to be instituted.

But the scope and scale of the data mishandling, coupled with Facebook's failure to inform users when it found about the policy breach in 2015 have played very badly with markets and users alike...

Pressed on why he didn't inform users, in 2015, when Facebook says it found out about this policy breach, Zuckerberg avoided a direct answer — instead fixing on what the company did (asked Cambridge Analytica and the developer whose app was used to suck out data to delete the data)-- rather than explaining the thinking behind the thing it did not do (tell affected Facebook users their personal information had been misappropriated).

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It brought home the point of why Facebook users are concerned about a data breach and an invasion of privacy.

The social network giant reported about 2.2 billion monthly active users in March, the same month that a data breach affecting about 87 million Facebook users was revealed

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Facebook, meanwhile, has sought to explain that the mishandling of user data was out of its hands and doesn't constitute a «breach» — a definition that would require the company to alert users about whether their information was taken, per U.S. Federal Trade Commission rules.

On users part, to avoid such kind of data breach being used to target you, you need to be a little more careful about the data permissions you give to your connected apps.

It is highly unlikely that users will have to worry about data theft or breaches.

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday finally broke his silence about the abuse of data on the platform by Cambridge Analytica, promising to redouble efforts to safeguard user privacy after the exposure of the massive data breach.

A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.

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Under Armour began notifying users today about a data breach that compromised 150 million accounts on its popular lifestyle app, MyFitnessPal — a free calorie counter and exercise journal available on both iOS and Android.

Under Armour began notifying users today about a data breach that compromised 150 million accounts on its popular lifestyle...

Facebook didn't alert users that Cambridge Analytica was in possession of wrongfully obtained data, even though it knew about it for years, and although the company says it's going to alert everyone effected, without a federal data breach notification requirement, there's nothing preventing the company from deciding to keep users in the dark again.

But the scope and scale of the data mishandling, coupled with Facebook's failure to inform users when it found about the policy breach in 2015 have played very badly with markets and users alike...

After a series of revelations about the vastness of the Cambridge Analytica data breach and acknowledgement that nearly all of Facebook's 2.2 billion users have had their profile data scraped at one time or another, now comes a report that Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to obtain medical records from a number of major hospitals.

The reports to European data protection authorities, which were filed simultaneously by multiple consumer organizations, cite news coverage that Facebook didn't adequately protect its users» data — firstly by being careless about providing third parties access to it and secondly for not rectifying the breach when the company became aware of it back in 2015 — as a reason to investigate possible infractions in Europe.

Forgive me for being frustrated by the spectacle of lawmakers suddenly asking questions about what is essentially Facebook's business model as if they were just born yesterday, and investigative news reporters hyping «data breaches» when in fact these very same lawmakers and journalists are themselves running campaigns and working for corporations that themselves collect gobs of user data with little awareness themselves.

The ASSOCHAM Secretary General D S Rawat said, «though the number of users affected by the Facebook data breach is less at about half a million in India, more and more Indians are going digital.

There are calls for regulation on how Facebook (and other sites) can access and manage its users» data, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the US Congress to discuss exactly what and when he and his company knew about this data breach.

If users» information was compromised by Cambridge Analytica, their notification will have additional language about the breach; and when directed to «Apps and Websites,» Facebook will explain what data may have been exposed.

Responding to a notice last month from the Centre, asking Facebook whether personal information of any Indians was stolen as part of its global data breach involving UK data firm Cambridge Analytica, the US - based social media company on Thursday admitted that about 5.62 lakh users in India were «potentially affected».

NEWS ANALYSIS: Facebook users have to be wondering if they can ever trust the social network to protect their data after company founder Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that it failed correct a breach it had known about since 2015.

Under Armour's health - and fitness - tracking app, MyFitnessPal, has been hit with a data breach affecting about 150 million users.

Despite reportedly having evidence that Cambridge Analytica had illegitimately collected user data, Facebook did not suspend Cambridge Analytica until Friday — more than two years after the alleged data breach from Cambridge Analytica was first reported, and four days after The Guardian reportedly sought comment from Facebook about the story.

Facebook, meanwhile, has sought to explain that the mishandling of user data was out of its hands and doesn't constitute a «breach» - a definition that would require the company to alert users about whether their information was taken, per U.S. Federal Trade Commission rules.

Pressed on why he didn't inform users, in 2015, when Facebook says it found out about this policy breach, Zuckerberg avoided a direct answer — instead fixing on what the company did (asked Cambridge Analytica and the developer whose app was used to suck out data to delete the data)-- rather than explaining the thinking behind the thing it did not do (tell affected Facebook users their personal information had been misappropriated).

On April 4, the company said that the personal data breach might have affected about 87 million Facebook users, while the Cambridge Analytica argued that under the contract it had access to the personal data of no more than 30 million people.

The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITy) has sent a notice to data mining and analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, which is at the heart of the case involving alleged breach of Facebook user data, seeking information about its clients in India and whether it had harvested their user profiles.

The company is now sending emails to users with verified accounts about the data breach.