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Facebook is suing two developers and a Spanish company it alleges sold software that delivered fake likes and comments on Instagram, and unlawfully scraped user data from Facebook.Facebook filed separate lawsuits in Spain and…

The personal information of what could be hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers is being sold on the dark web. This data includes names, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and order histories, and appears to…

A hacker appears to be selling a giant stash of LinkedIn user data that was scraped from the networking website and other places, according to the company and a report. The database purportedly containing info from…

The drugmaker AstraZeneca slightly lowered estimates of its COVID-19 vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing the disease to 76%, after US health officials questioned numbers released earlier in the week.The new results “have…

Facebook on Tuesday said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 million users stemmed from a misuse of a feature in 2019 and that the company had plugged the hole after identifying the problem at the…

With “friends” like these… Facebook has not notified the more than half-billion users who were affected by a 2019 data leak — and has no plans to do so, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The leaks of 530 million…