The breach affected 2.76 million living people and another 294,000 who are deceased, the official said. The scope and ...

A new study ranks the sectors that have been hit the hardest since 2004. One industry accounted for more than 8.1 billion exposed records.

The Office of the Information Commissioner says some of the breaches were malicious and intentional.

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Law firm Seyfarth Shaw has reported a data breach. The breach exposed client documents and personal information. The incident ...

From the massive DOGE data breach and the compromise of critical infrastructure to the hack of federal surveillance systems, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026 so ...

Hacking attacks exploiting application programming interfaces (APIs) to steal personal information have occurred ...

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A data breach is a security incident where an unauthorized individual accesses sensitive information. When a breach happens, personal, financial or confidential data can be exposed, stolen or misused.

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FBI breach claim targets FBIJobs.gov, with exposed records possibly identifying members of the agency's secretive hacking unit.

ADT confirmed a data breach exposing customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and partial SSNs, with millions of records reportedly affected. Image: ShinyHunters’ dark web notice of ADT hack ADT says ...