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 ...

Several major healthcare data breaches, affecting millions of individuals, have been added to the tracker maintained by the ...

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, ...

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

Try to recall your privacy practice 20 years ago, in May 2006. The California breach notification statute, the first one in the country, had ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...