Western Digital sends customers a personal data breach notification
WD's recent security incident could turn into a privacy nightmare
Data breach articles
Shhh: One in three IT pros have covered up a data breach
Breaches happen far more often than we're told
Teen hacker arrested in Spain following daring cyberattacks
The suspect allegedly hacked multiple public institutions
Hackers accessed personal data from 9 million AT&T customers
No credit card information or social security numbers exposed
Personal data of US House and Senate members offered for sale following healthcare hack
The DC Health Link breach saw 170,000 records compromised
Acer confirms data breach after hacker lists trove of stolen material for sale
No customer or financial data was compromised
LastPass says employee's home computer was hacked to steal a decrypted vault
Reportedly via Plex
In brief: Password manager LastPass has revealed details of a breach last year that resulted in partially encrypted user login data being stolen. The company confirmed that the incident stemmed from a previous hack in August that enabled the hacker to steal credentials from a DevOps engineer's home computer and obtain a decrypted vault.
Activision suffered a data breach in December, exposing confidential data and future gaming plans
The company confirmed the breach but denied data exfiltration
LastPass security breach keeps getting worse, admits parent company
Hackers stole encrypted backups, too
Data breach may have leaked classified law enforcement operations information to criminals
"It may lead to tragic consequences for police officers and undercover agents"
Latest T-Mobile data breach impacts 37 million customers
The attacker used a single API to siphon data
Thousands of PayPal accounts breached in credential stuffing attack
Another illustration of why you should never recycle credentials
NortonLifeLock warns of password manager breach after failing to reject mass login attempts
Credential stuffing attack could impact thousands of accounts
LastPass breach: it's worse than initially thought
The August incident compromised some users' data, too
McGraw Hill breach exposed 22 terabytes of sensitive student data
Two unprotected S3 buckets contained troves of confidential information
LastPass user information exposed in data breach
These incidents aren't filling customers with confidence
Watch out for phishing emails from 2K Games Support, it was hacked
When it rains, it pours: Still reeling from a GTA 6 leak over the weekend, Take-Two got nailed with another data breach. This time it was subsidiary 2K Games taking the hit when a hacker accessed an internal support account and began sending out official 2K emails with links to a phishing website. It is still unclear if Take-Two has contained the intrusion and how many customers were affected, but the entire 2K support division is shut down until further notice.
Uber confirms "cybersecurity incident" after 18-year-old claimed to be behind massive breach
It's unclear whether he accessed customer data
What just happened? Uber is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has compromised many of its internal systems, giving the hacker, who says he is just 18 years old, almost complete access to the company's network. The breach is thought to be as bad as or worse than the 2016 incident that exposed the details of 57 million customers.
Twitter shut down a major security flaw but not before a hacker exposed 5.4 million users
Some speculate the hacker is trying to cash in on selling the data and collecting a bug bounty
Average data breach costs reach an all-time high
Companies often pass the cost of a breach on to customers
Extortion group RansomHouse claims to have gigabytes of sensitive data stolen from AMD
The chipmaker is currently investigating the claims
CEOs and other top executives use the same terrible passwords as other people
Shouldn't they know better?
Block says 8.2 million US Cash App customers affected by data breach
A former employee was responsible
Pegasus spyware found on nine US diplomatic phones
Most significant known Pegasus breach against US officials