Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

Update, August 5, 2025: This story, originally published on August 3, has been updated with further mitigation advice as well as a new report regarding phishing and credential theft trends as Google ...

Australians locked out of social media accounts, hit with unexpected fees, or left struggling with automated chatbots are driving a sharp rise in complaints about major digital platforms — but the ...

A new cyber threat called the GhostPairing scam is putting WhatsApp users at serious risk. Hackers are misusing WhatsApp's ...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked on Friday, immediately prompting questions about how secure Trump's account might be.

Instagram is introducing more safety and security tools. These include a hub where people can go to report and resolve account access issues they're having. This could be hugely beneficial for hacked ...

Donald Trump's Twitter account is a "security disaster waiting to happen," according to security experts, who say it should be protected with the same technology used by the military to shield nuclear ...

CARY, N.C. -- Some players of Fortnite, the popular video game produced by Epic Games, are complaining of account hacking and limited options to prevent it. Fortnite, which as of January had 45 ...

Instagram users are getting locked out of their accounts as a result of a bizarre hack. Credit: LightRocket via Getty Images Krista, an Instagram user with more than 4,500 followers on her fitness ...

Twitch has an account hacking problem. After the breach of popular browser game Town of Salem in January, some 7.8 million stolen passwords quickly became the weakest link not only for the game but ...

Cybersecurity Expert John McAfee has warned of advances in hacking methods after his personal Twitter account was hijacked to promote a number of alternate cryptocurrencies last week. The founder of ...

Piers Morgan’s Twitter account was hacked overnight and spewed a series of crass and racist comments for nearly an hour before it was shut down and wiped clean. The feed for British TV commentator’s ...