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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But that doesn't mean you're totally powerless. When you understand how a data breach happens, you can shield yourself from the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around four months is the average time it takes for a company to report a data breach but certain industries take even longer, an analysis of ransomware attacks since 2018 finds. Companies often take ...

Any data breach affecting 1.6 million people is serious. It draws even more attention when it involves a company trusted to guard passwords. That is exactly what happened to LastPass. The U.K.

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 ...

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 ...

By Ben TAGOEWhy Data Protection laws matter to your businessData breaches are happening more frequently around the world, and governments everywhere are taking data protection very seriously. Whether ...