Coverage tagged "Data Breach".
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Xandr, an advertising unit owned by Microsoft, €8.6 million ($9.62 million) for illegally relaying Grindr users' sensitive data to advertisers…
UpGuard provides another entry for our “No need to hack when it’s leaking” files. This time, it’s Liberating Research. On August 31, Greg Pollock from UpGuard contacted DataBreaches.net to report a…
Roseland Community Hospital Association in Illinois has agreed to settle a class action data breach lawsuit for $650,000. The lawsuit was filed in response to a 2024 cybersecurity incident that…
First Physical Robbery Potentially Linked to Revolut Data Breach Following the recent Revolut hack we reported on, we are now seeing the terrifying real-world consequences of compromised customer…
Scammers are finding different ways to use personal details exposed in data breaches to lure people into conversations. Last week, we showed how a Facebook Marketplace listing used the recipient’s…
In August 2026, the digital health company Sharecare was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data it claimed was taken from Sharecare's…
Data breaches have been announced by the Pennsylvania-based medical management and billing service provider Secure Healthcare Information Management and Desert Orthopaedic Center in Nevada.
David Hollingsworth reports: The operator of a global suite of cancer care providers has confirmed that patient data has been affected by a data breach involving Australia’s largest cancer care…
An attacker reportedly used a leaked password to abuse a company’s legitimate access to Denmark’s population register (CPR). The weak password is remarkable, but the failure to spot millions of…
Etairos Health has agreed to settle class action litigation stemming from a February 20, 2024, ransomware attack and data breach that exposed the personal information of current and former employees…
Hackers stole patients’ personal information, including names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers.
Data breach notifications are telling victims less than ever. What the company leaves out can still shape what you do next.
Daiichi Kosho says a supply chain breach has exposed personal data on over eight million karaoke customers
When asked about the “Luna Moth Files” that had mysteriously appeared online, Silent Ransom Group called them “fake” and insisted they hadn’t had any leak or breach. But they had. Here’s what we know.
The Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, one of the largest medical institutions, was targeted by us that resulted in the largest data breach among healthcare institutions. Our group chose not to…
Ritzau has more on the Denmark Central Person Register (CPR) breach: At least three accounts at the company linked to a major breach of Denmark’s CPR register reportedly used the password “123456”…
The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network.
The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had…
The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the ShinyHunters extortion group believed to be involved in the recent breach of FBI systems, Director Kash Patel announced Friday.
Valley Oaks Health faced class action litigation over a June 2023 data security incident that affected 50,352 individuals. The consolidated lawsuit has recently been settled.
