The social network is embarrassed by a glitch in its "Download Your Information" tool that unintentionally shared some members' phone numbers and e-mail addresses. Jennifer Van Grove covered the ...

Facebook said Friday that a software bug affecting nearly 7 million users may have exposed a broader set of photos to app developers than what those users intended. Although this doesn't mean the ...

A bug allowed Facebook users to view their friends’ chat sessions on the site, prompting the social-networking company to disable its internal instant-messaging service. The bug also let people see ...

A bug-bounty hunter found an issue in Meta's Instagram API endpoints that could allow a threat actor to launch brute-force attacks and bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) on Facebook. The ...

Facebook logo is pictured on a laptop screen in Moscow on August 26, 2021. - Russia has fined Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp for failing to store the data of Russian users on local servers, the ...

For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. For a period of ...

In October 2024, security researcher Ben Sadeghipour was analyzing Facebook’s ad platform when he found a security vulnerability that allowed him to run commands on the internal Facebook server ...

Facebook on Monday said it is notifying more than 800,000 users that a software bug temporarily unblocked people at the social network and its Messenger service. The glitch active between May 29 and ...

Update #2, 12 May, 2023 (01:44 PM ET): Meta has responded with the following official statement: ““We fixed a bug related to a recent app update that caused some Facebook friend requests to be sent ...

Meta has fixed a new, ‘friendly’ Facebook bug that popped up recently. Why ‘friendly’, though? Well, this bug actually sent automatic friend requests to users. Odd? Yes, very much so, and quite ...