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A breach in an email server setup by Musk's lackeys just allowed over 13,000 government email addresses to be overrun with spam.

Trump Broke the Federal Email System and Government Employees Got Blasted With Astonishingly Vulgar Messages

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of confidential company data — all because of one misconfigured permission token.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI Team Accidentally Leaks Terabytes of Company Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facebook is down. Which means misinformation about the cause of the outage has hit Twitter hard, including dubious reports of a Facebook leak.

Fact Check: Is Facebook Down Because 1.5 Billion Users’ Data Was Stolen?

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers posted the leaked private information of over 533 million Facebook users online. The breach was so big it even includes Mark Zuckerberg's data.

Science & Energy

New Facebook Leak Was So Huge It Included Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

Over 419 million database records on hundreds of millions of Facebook users, including their phone numbers, were stored in an unprotected server.

Phone Numbers of 400M Facebook Users Were Publicly Available

By Victor Tangermann

Hactivists have found a database containing details on more than 80 million U.S. households, but they have no idea who owns it.

No One Knows Who Owns This Massive Database of Americans’ Info

By Kristin Houser

Facebook admitted yesterday that it "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of some 1.5 million new users since May 2016.

Facebook “Unintentionally” Uploaded 1.5 Million Email Contacts

By Victor Tangermann