A data breach is a cyberattack, although not all cyberattacks are data breaches. A good example of this is a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), which is a cyberattack where bad actors ...

ADT confirmed a data breach exposing customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and partial SSNs, with millions of records reportedly affected.

LastPass fined $1.6 million over insufficient security measures. Updated December 14 with details of how to check if any of your passwords have been compromised following news of 630 million stolen ...

In January 2026, researchers and the media reported a data breach affecting 72.7 million Under Armour customers’ records with ...

A third-party data breach occurs when malicious actors compromise a vendor, supplier, contractor, or other organization to gain access to sensitive information or systems of the victim’s customers, ...

Brightspeed, one of the largest fiber broadband providers in the United States, is investigating claims that hackers stole sensitive data tied to more than 1 million customers. The allegations ...

The data breach at education tech giant Instructure includes students' private data, according to a sample of the allegedly stolen data seen by TechCrunch.

You’ve probably been impacted by a data breach, even if you don’t know it. Major data breaches – like the national public data breach which comprised sensitive data of over half of the US population – ...

The rise of AI and our increasing dependence on technology have left us increasingly vulnerable to data breaches. Breaches occur when hackers and other unauthorized parties fraudulently access ...

Around four months is the average time it takes for a company to report a data breach but certain industries take even longer, an analysis of ransomware attacks since 2018 finds. Companies often take ...