A threat actor claims to have breached Dell, exposing employee emails. However, researchers found fake data in the sample, ...

You’ve probably been impacted by a data breach, even if you don’t know it. Major data breaches – like the national public data breach which comprised sensitive data of over half of the US population – ...

Equifax has agreed to a settlement with the FTC stemming from a September 2017 data breach. If you’ve recently received a notification about the Equifax data breach settlement, you may be wondering if ...

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Cybersecurity breaches are getting worse. As AI development continues apace, criminals are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to dupe unsuspecting individuals and gain access to your ...

Data breaches are no longer rare events but a persistent problem. We’ve been seeing regular incidents at public-facing companies across various sectors, including healthcare, retail and finance. While ...

Oklahoma resident Ronald Allen was one of dozens of people who say their lives became more difficult in 2022 after customer data like names, email addresses, and birth dates was stolen from Samsung, ...

Taylor Brown is cofounder and COO of Fivetran, a leader in data integration. With increased scrutiny from regulations like the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the ...

Americans’ personal data is now spread across more digital platforms than ever. From online shopping habits to fitness tracking logs, personal information ends up in hundreds of company databases.

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 ...

Geoff Williams is a journalist and author. His byline has appeared in numerous publications, including U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, LIFE magazine ...