Coverage tagged "Data Breach".
Burger King Japan disclosed a breach exposing 11.18 million app users’ personal data after attackers accessed its membership system in early October. Burger King Japan has disclosed a data breach…
Anne Arundel County, Maryland, said an intruder stole files from government systems, and investigators are working to assess how much data was exposed.
In today’s reminder of the insider threat, Kim Ji-won reports: A National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) employee was dismissed for illegally selling personal information of health insurance…
As agents escape containment and access external systems, responsibility remains human. Accountability, however, is much less settled.
Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of global fast-food giant Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer records.
The regulated utility company CenterPoint Energy says a data breach exposed the personal information of more than 1 million people in Texas. CenterPoint Energy is a regulated utility company used to…
Debra Ahmed reports: An unprotected database linked to India-based AI software development and IT services company Vibetech exposed 13.7 million records containing credentials and other sensitive…
Tevye Markson has an update on the April 2025 breach of the UK’s Legal Aid Agency, previously reported on this site: A new update on the Legal Aid Agency data breach has revealed that the data which…
Personal information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers was compromised.
The ICO has handed the Metropolitan Police a reprimand and enforcement notice after privacy failings linked to the Auror platform
In July 2026, 77 healthcare data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals were reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights. July was the third…
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that manages the country's Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached its IT systems in April 2025 stole…
The HIPAA Journal has compiled healthcare data breach statistics from October 2009, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started publishing summaries…
GuardOS is an iPhone application that combines device security checks, VPN access, Safari content filtering, QR link scanning, and storage cleanup. It is available through the App Store. Getting…
Top RCE Vulnerabilities A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability is a software flaw that lets an attacker run their own code on a target system from a remote location. Exploiting vulnerabilities…
Twin Cities Pain Clinic, an Edina, Minnesota-based pain management center, has settled class action litigation arising from a July 2025 data incident that exposed patients’ personal and protected…
In January 2026, the private company intelligence platform Crunchbase was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. Data allegedly obtained from the company was subsequently…
U.S. authorities warn that sanctioned hackers are increasingly targeting Americans to act as facilitators between breached U.S. companies and Pyongyang.
Luis Monzon reports: Ampath Laboratories, one of South Africa’s largest pathology service providers, has been hit by a cyberattack, with the attacker claiming that more than 80 million patient…
Data breaches have been announced by the New York-based healthcare technology company Photon Health, the Texas-based medical provider network company Healthcare Highways, and the New York-based home…
