A 7-Eleven data breach linked to franchisee records reportedly exposed personal details including names, addresses, dates of ...

Data-breach notices are becoming all too common these days, aren’t they? Those tiny folded postcards and thin, ominous business envelopes—from your health insurance company, cellular provider, bank or ...

The number of personal data compromises rose 5% last year — with 3,322 events in 2025 versus 3,152 in 2024 — a record, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center's new annual report. Even federal ...

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 ...

A cyberattack exposed the personal information of approximately 36 million Xfinity customers in October 2023. Now, Comcast ...

Nearly a year and a half after AT&T's data breach was announced, a $177 million legal settlement could offer each eligible customer up to $7,500 in compensation. Still haven't filed a claim? Thursday ...

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, ...

Booking a train ticket is usually something most people don't think twice about. Now it could come with real privacy risks after a reported data exposure tied to Amtrak. A newly surfaced dataset ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. A ransomware group known as SafePlay said ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. When the Center for Vein Restoration (CVR) discovered suspicious activity in its network on October 6, 2024, the ...

Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent ...