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Researchers have found some popular adblocking and VPN apps stealthily pilfering users' data. These apps link back to the dataPopular Adblocking And VPN Apps C…
More than 200 million records containing a wide range of property-related information on US residents were left exposed on a database that was accessible on th…
The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that expos…
Following in the footsteps of their West Coast neighbors, Washington state legislators have introduced legislation to regulate consumer data privacy and the go…
Data breaches are expensive. A company that suffers a data breach will spend about $4 million to recover lost informationData Breaches That Occurred in 2019 an…
Skyrocketing data breaches bring incalculable losses to organizations and can cost cybersecurity executives their jobs.Here we examine the top five places in 2…
More deserialization flaws were discovered in jackson-databind relating to the classes in com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig, com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource, c…
Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic…
Vanderbilt University warns it is responding to a cyberattack claimed by the BYOD ransomware gang, which claims to have encrypted the university's databases an…
An attacker broke into AWS accounts belonging to multiple Qubole customers between October 14 and October 26 and stole stored secrets and data, cloud security …
November 6, 2026 8:00 PM EST NEWTON, N.J., Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office (SCPO) experienced a data privacy event that involved …
Lee Trewhela reports: The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) has admitted a huge data breach has led to many affected staff experiencing “significant distre…
There’s yet another update in the Coupang data breach case. Previous coverage on DataBreaches.net of the incident, enforcement actions, and Coupang’s objection…
Mara Sugue reports: Lab 1 has published a report analysing 328 million files from 2,089 datasets exposed after cyber attacks. It found that the median breach n…
Maddie Baker reports: “Cybersecurity insurance normally covers compensation for costs arising from data breaches such as hacking, internally caused cyber leaks…
Jack Krumm reports: We’re learning more about a major data privacy breach and the tens of thousands of people nationwide who could be affected. CSX, one of the…
Killingly Public Schools (“KPS”), a school district located in Killingly, Connecticut, was the victim of a recent data privacy incident involving certain perso…
A vulnerabilitiy was discovered in git-annex, a tool to manage large files with git, without storing the file contents in git, which could result in data exfil…
Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that a data breach at Amadeus's Passenger Service System exposed the data of about 92,000 customers.…
Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guid…
The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine food delivery, airline and ride-sharing companies to turn over detailed information on how they harness personal data…
Sony Network Communications has confirmed a data breach that compromised approximately 2.5 million records containing current and former customers' personal in…
Abbye Alexander, Esq., Henry Norwood, Esq., and Emily Taing, Esq. of Kaufman Dolowich LLP write: Recent caselaw suggests a shift in how courts analyze healthca…
UA News reports: In Moldova, the personal data of approximately 750,000 people may have been stolen following a cyberattack on government digital services. Pri…