The amount of data being collected is drastically increasing day-by-day with lots of applications, tools, and online platforms booming in the present technological era. To handle and access this humongous data productively, it's necessary to develop valuable information extraction tools. One of the sub-areas that's demanding attention in the Information Extraction field is the fetching and accessing of data from tabular forms. To explain this in a subtle way, imagine you have lots of paperwork and documents where you would be using tables, and using the same, you would like to manipulate data. Conventionally, you can copy them manually (onto a paper) or load them into excel sheets. However, with table extraction, no sooner have you sent tables as pictures to the computer than it extracts all the information and stacks them into a neat document. This saves an ample of time and is less erroneous. As discussed in the previous section, tables are used frequently to represent data in a clean format. We can see them so often across several areas, from organizing our work by structuring data across tables to storing huge assets of companies.

Facebook says that a vast trove of personal information, uploaded freely to the internet, was harvested as part of a feature gone wrong. The data was not stolen in a hack but instead through malicious users of its "contact importer", it said. Though that feature was intended to allow people to upload their contacts from their phone to Facebook, and find people they might know, malicious actors were able to use it to scrape the personal information of people who were already on the platform. That happened before September 2019, Facebook said in a blog post, and the bug that made it possible has now been fixed. But over the weekend it became clear that the data had become availably publicly online, vastly increasing the risk that anyone involved in it might face. That includes 535 million accounts, which belong to people including chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. The data includes things like profile names, Facebook ID numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers. It's all the kind of information that may already have been leaked or scraped from some other source, but it's yet another resource that links all that data together--and ties it to each victim--presenting tidy profiles to scammers, phishers, and spammers on a silver platter. Facebook's initial response was simply that the data was previously reported on in 2019 and that the company patched the underlying vulnerability in August of that year. But a closer look at where, exactly, this data comes from produces a much murkier picture.

Data from a 2019 hack of Facebook Inc. was made public in recent days, revealing the phone numbers and personal information of more than a half-billion people. While the data came from a vulnerability of Facebook platforms that the company says it has since fixed, security experts say that scammers could use the information for nefarious purposes like spam email and robocalling. Regulators in Europe have asked Facebook for more details about the data leak. Facebook said Tuesday in a blog post that the data leak reflects the ongoing need to police actions of bad actors on its platform. Here is what you need to know.

Not every piece of data is available for each user but 500 million phone numbers were leaked compared with "only a few million email addresses", Troy Hunt, a security expert who runs HaveIBeenPwned said in a blog on his website.

Australians are being urged to secure their social media accounts after the details of more than 500 million global Facebook users were found online in a massive data breach. The details published freely online included names, phone numbers, email addresses, account IDs and bios. In a statement, Facebook said the leaked information was old, and came from a problem it had resolved in 2019, but experts told Guardian Australia the data could still cause problems for users caught up in the breach. So what might hackers do with your info? How can you check if your data was leaked?

The Massachusetts College of Art and Design is holding a virtual auction to help support student scholarships. The silent auction portion of the fundraising event ends at noon on April 11, while a live auction takes place online on the evening of April 10. The 32nd annual MassArt Auction is the second conducted online due to the pandemic. Artists who have had their works juried into the auction donate either 50% or 100% of the sale price to support MassArt scholarships. The two auctions will feature over 300 works from MassArt students, graduates, members of the faculty and others.

Washington – Data affecting more than 500 million Facebook users that was originally leaked in 2019, including email addresses and phone numbers, has been posted on an online hackers forum, according to media reports and a cybercrime expert. "All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free," Alon Gal, chief technology officer at the Hudson Rock cybercrime intelligence firm, said Saturday on Twitter. He denounced what he called the "absolute negligence" of Facebook. Some of the data appeared to be current, according to a report in Business Insider which AFP was unable to confirm independently. It said some of the leaked phone numbers still belong to the owners of Facebook accounts.

We live in a world where the globe is connected and communication made easy with the click of a button. In this social age, the evolution of the World Wide Web (www), characterized by the advancement of smartphones and semantic technology, has redefined social media as a retail platform and an indispensable marketing tool. Social media marketing (SMM) is a form of digital marketing that involves sharing content on social media platforms in an attempt to actualize a firm's branding, sales, and web traffic goals. Social media has become essential to helping brands connect to a wider range of customers, establish brand presence, and increase sales both in-store and online. Considering the size of this new virtual market, it comes as no surprise that marketers would choose to use social media to increase brand awareness.

The main motive of using sentiment analysis is to find out the true feelings of the varied people living in our society. It can be used for analyzing the customer feedback of a particular company, normal users on social media towards a product, services, social issues, or political agendas. Companies also use it for brand analysis, reputation crises, campaigns performances, competitor analysis, and improve the service offered to the customers. Analyzing the sentiments of the customers helps the customer support team to prioritize their work for offering better service to end-users. What are the common challenges with which sentiment analysis deals?