Just days after Google publicly denounced the false reporting suggesting a massive Gmail security breach, here we are again with frighteningly big numbers that will likely trigger a raft of ...

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, ...

If you thought the startling number of yearly data breaches would spur tech companies to improve security, then buckle up, because the trend is only getting worse. Almost every year, we see an ...

INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE HAS THAT ANSWER. YES, FOLKS, THAT LETTER YOU MAY BE GETTING FROM THE TRANSUNION CREDIT BUREAU IS REAL. LET ME SHOW YOU THE LETTER AND TELL YOU WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. THE LETTER ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. AT&T has suffered two significant data breaches over the last few years ...

Following a series of mass emails alleging Penn had been hacked, individuals claiming responsibility for the security breach released thousands of pages of internal University files on Nov. 1. The ...

Thousands of people have had their sensitive personal information exposed in a data breach at U.S. delivery company OnTrac. The breach occurred between April 13 and April 15, 2025, and impacted over ...

30% of data breaches that occurred last year involved a third party, new research shows. According to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, during the year ended October 31, 2024, there ...

It's not your fault if your data is lost in a breach; it means somebody else made a mistake. The crypto investors who lost $1.4 billion in the ByBit crypto exchange hack trusted the exchange to ...

When a healthcare data breach is first disclosed, the number of people affected is often far lower than the final tally. That figure frequently climbs as investigations continue. That's exactly what ...

Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism degree from SUNY Oswego, he wrote credit card content for Credit Card Insider (now Money Tips) before moving to ...