which also suffered a mega-hack of 160 million user accounts. So if you have an account on VKontakte, hurry up and change your password — especially if you're using the same one elsewhere online.

After promising to introduce new privacy settings that will supposedly make it harder for law enforcement to monitor accounts and reposts, Vkontakte now says it will publish a transparency report ...

In recent months, Vkontakte has weathered bad publicity for sharing user data with the police and helping the authorities identify “Internet criminals” in controversial, often politicized trials.

According to a reporter with Meduza news outlet, who was present at the court hearing, the extremism and separatism charges Bubeyev faces stem from two pieces of content the Internet user reposted on ...

A hacker has obtained 171 million user accounts associated with social ... Russia-headquartered social network -- formerly known as VKontakte -- is said to be the largest in Europe, with over ...

Russian social media network VKontakte has been having a bad few months. Multiple platform users have been prosecuted for their posts, and the company has been publicly shamed for its lack of ...