Brian Thompson, the slain CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down on Wednesday while top executives at his company have reportedly been under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for alleged insider trading and a monopoly.
Set Forth, a prominent debt relief services provider, has disclosed a significant data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of 1.5 million Americans, including Social Security numbers, full names, and dates of birth.
The personal and medical information of millions of Americans has been stolen by hackers in a cyberattack on HealthEquity, a major health savings account administrator.
A data breach at Golden Corral restaurants has exposed the personal information of over 180,000 employees and their beneficiaries, the company disclosed this week.
Wyze, a security camera company boasting 10 million users, is in hot water after a breach allowed 13,000 customers to see into other people’s homes.
Press freedom groups in Mexico sounded the alarm after more than 300 Mexican journalists who covered the country’s president had their personal information exposed in connection with a government data breach.
Italy’s data protection agency announced AI bot ChatGPT will be blocked from the country until it complies with data privacy rules.
The personal information of “hundreds” of lawmakers and staff in the House of Representatives, as well as some Senators and staffers, has been compromised by a data breach at DC Health Link, an online health insurance marketplace.
The personal and clinical information of about 400,000 patients of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA) was stolen in October in a ransomware attack, the organization announced Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is sending letters to service members notifying them that their personal information may have been compromised by hackers who breached a computer network managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
Prosecutors said Chinese military officials stole the personal information of 145 million Americans by hacking Equifax.
A data breach in THSuite, a point-of-sale system for the cannabis industry, has exposed the personal data of over 30,000 individuals.
MoviePass confirmed this week that a data breach potentially compromised thousands of credit card numbers belonging to their customers.
Tech giant Facebook failed to warn users about the risks attached to its single sign-on tool despite taking steps to protect employees from dangers, according to a lawsuit. According to the suit, Facebook knew about the vulnerability but failed to fix it for years.
According to a recent report, at least 140,000 social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers have been put at risk following a data breach involving more than 100 million credit card applicants’ information.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a statement on Monday confirming that photos of travelers and the license plates of their vehicles were compromised in a data breach of a CBP subcontractor.
AMC Networks exposed 1.62 million total records — including data of subscribers’ names, emails, and subscription details — on the open internet connected to its Sundance Now and Shudder subscription streaming services.
The Georgia Institute of Technology announced this week that a data breach compromised personal information from 1.3 million students, faculty, and applicants, including social security numbers.
A Dutch cybersecurity analyst claimed on Monday to have discovered a database created by Chinese police that contains private information about 364 million social media users, revealing a government surveillance network of breathtaking scale and uncertain purpose.
Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt on Thursday announced the discovery of a gigantic trove of pilfered usernames and addresses for email accounts from a variety of services, quite possibly representing the largest breach of account information in history.
Marriott International announced Friday that the data of up to 500 million Starwood customers was compromised.
The U.S. Postal Service has reportedly exposed the data of 60 million users due to faulty web programming.
Facebook was left red-faced after the social network giant suffered a data protection mishap during a cybersecurity conference it hosted.
Approximately 75,000 people who entered their personal information in the Healthcare.gov portal had their data compromised last month after hackers infiltrated the government-run portal used to help people enroll in health insurance plans, officials said Friday.
The Irish Data Protection Commission announced Wednesday the launch of an investigation into Facebook over a recent data breach that allowed access to 90 million accounts worldwide.
Facebook has once again suffered a major user data breach which left the accounts of 50 million users vulnerable until it was fixed.
Uber is set to pay a $148 million settlement over the 2016 data breach which affected the company, its drivers, and customers.
A data breach at TeenSafe, a service which allows parents to monitor their children’s texts, phone calls, location, and web history, has exposed the data of thousands of teenagers and their parents.
An Uber data breach in 2016 exposed the personal information of over 25 million Americans, according to a report.
UK MP’s have called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify about the social media companies most recent user data scandal.
Uber had admitted that they had “no justification” for the coverup of a data breach which left the personal information of 57 million users vulnerable.
VTech, the Chinese electronics manufacturer of children’s toys and games, has been fined $650,000 after failing to protect the privacy of their young tech users.
Nearly $64 million in bitcoin has been stolen following a hack that affected “bitcoin mining marketplace” NiceHash.
Uber reportedly paid a 20-year-old Florida man $100,000 via a bug reporting reward system to keep the data breach of 57 million users information a secret.
Three senior security managers at Uber have left the company following the revelation the company covered-up a data breach.
The city of Chicago has filed a lawsuit against Uber following the company’s failure to report a data breach that left 57 million Uber users vulnerable for over a year.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was reportedly aware of a hack that took place at the company last year for months before revealing the extent of the data breach to the public.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has opened an investigation into Uber’s concealment of a data breach in 2016, according to a report.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “does not expect” the recent Equifax data breaches to have a “major effect” because they believe a “significant” number of victims already had their personal information stolen.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has suspended a contract previously awarded to Equifax following an alleged second data breach, according to a report.
