data leak

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

What's Going On?

Here's what happens to misinformation when the single largest source of misinformation goes down.

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

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.

Texting Zuck

Over 500 million users' data was leaked — and it's available online.

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

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

Can I Have Your Number?

The data was stored on a server that wasn't even password-protected.

Phone Numbers of 400M Facebook Users Were Publicly Available

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

Security Woes

It contains details on more than 80 million U.S. homes — but nothing about its owner.

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

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