ICO says it is making inquiries with banking group over data privacy after it accessed 30,000 staff accounts ...

Cybernews said it found a database on “millions” of French citizens exposed on the open web for an unknown period of time.

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What happened in the Qantas data breach? On June 30, 2025, Qantas found unusual activity on a third-party customer service platform. Hackers broke into this system and took personal information, such ...

The recent high-profile data breach at a top proponent of cloud computing could reignite debate among financial institutions about using such outside vendors. Capital One shares fell nearly 6% Tuesday ...

Data breaches have become so routine that many users barely react to them anymore. Another headline, another apology, ...

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 ...

Names, addresses and more personal information of 704,401 Illinois residents were released after a yearslong data breach, ...

If you were a customer of AT&T in 2019 or 2024, you could be eligible to receive up to $7,500 in compensation for two data breaches. Peter is a writer and editor for the CNET How-To team. He has been ...

Your inbox could contain real money—or a trap. I made two fake settlement claim sites in five minutes, and I'm here to tell you how to tell a legit settlement notice site from a data-stealing fake. I ...

On October 3, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill No. 446, which makes important changes to the California data breach notification statute. The new law, which takes effect on ...