Every Facebook user has a unique ID number. This number gives you some information on approximately -- but not precisely -- when you and your friends joined Facebook relative to each other. A lower ...

When you upload photos to a Facebook album, each picture is assigned a unique identification number. This photo ID helps you single out an individual picture when you want to reference a specific ...

Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication has also been associated with their user profile — which anyone can use ...

If you’ve ever been hesitant to hand your phone to a friend for fear they’ll read your DMs, you can now at least lock your Facebook Messenger chats behind a separate Face (or Touch) ID on your iPhone ...

Each year, telecom providers “recycle” millions of phone numbers. If you’ve ever been the owner of a recycled phone number, you’ve likely gotten a phone call or text from creditors, gyms, and other ...

Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, ...

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If you want to test something on Facebook but are afraid of using your account, here is a simple solution made by Facebook. You can create a Test account on Facebook to try different things virtually ...

Despite Facebook's celebrated simplified privacy settings, the site's apps -- FarmVille, Quiz Maker and the like -- have shared tens of millions of Facebook app users' personal information to ...

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Bryan Rutberg's daughter was among the first to notice something odd about her dad's Facebook page. At about 8 p.m. on Jan. 21, she ran into his bedroom and asked why he'd changed his status to: ...

An exposed server with more than 419 million records from Facebook users has been discovered online, reports TechCrunch. The server was not protected with a password and was accessible to anyone. It ...