Cyber Incidents

From being extra careful with your browsing habits to downloading the latest security apps, here are the ways you can safeguard your Android from cyber threats.

Contacted out of the blue for a virtual interview? Be cautious. Attackers are using fake interviews to slip malware onto your device.

The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.

According to a new survey by Consumer Reports, 15 percent of all U.S. consumers were victims of personal data breaches in 2013.

The fallout from the hack should be alarming to anyone who has stayed at a Starwood property in the last four years, expert says

While the volume of data breaches has actually decreased from last year, exposed records remain stubbornly high.

We will all, inevitably, be affected by a data breach of some kind (you likely have been already). When that day comes, you’ll want to be ready to mit

The number of data breaches fell by over half in Q1 of this year. But it's unclear whether this is part of a larger trend, a report from Risk Based Security says.

To help your business avoid the damages and costs of a data breach we interviewed experts to glean their best tips on keeping your customer's data safe.

Newly uncovered components of a digital surveillance tool used by more than 60 governments worldwide provide a rare glimpse at the extensive ways law enforcement and intelligence agencies use the tool to surreptitiously record and steal data from mobile phones. The modules, made by the Italian company Hacking Team, were uncovered by researchers working independently \[…\]

In the wake of the Heartbleed flaw, a researcher finds new weaknesses in OpenSSL that could be exploited to launch man-in-the-middle attacks,

The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]

Laura Cress reports: A former Meta employee suspected of downloading around 30,000 private images of Facebook users is being investigated by the Metropolitan Po

On June 1, 2025, the California Applicants' Attorneys Association reported that Serviceaide, a provider of AI-powered healthcare software, had suffered a data b

A data breach at SoundCloud exposed information tied to 29.8 million user accounts, according to Have I Been Pwned. While SoundCloud says no passwords or financial data were accessed, attackers mapped email addresses to public profile data and later attempted extortion.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Discord has identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of a customer service data breach announced last week, spokesperson Nu Wexler tells The Verge. A tweet by vx-underground said that the co...

: Affects users regardless of when their backups were created

A hacking group claims to have pulled data from a GitLab instance connected to Red Hat's consulting business, scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers. From a report: The hack was first reported by BleepingComputer and has been confirmed by Red Hat itself. "Red Hat is aware of rep...

Swiped data includes social security numbers. Even if you're not one of the unlucky 4.4 million, you might want to take these defensive measures anyway.

The company said a small amount of information was contained in the hacked e-mail accounts.

Hacker is believed to have breached Uber's entire network in a social engineering attack, which one security vendor says is more extensive than the company's 2016 global data breach and access logs potentially altered.

The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised more than 130 other organizations during their hacking spree that netted the credentials of close to 10,000 employees. TechCrunch: Twilio's recent network intrusion allowed the hackers to access the data of 125 Twilio customers and...

The unprecedented move follows allegations that Big Tech’s self-regulatory effort has failed to hold companies accountable for security lapses

More than 3 billion user credentials were just posted online as part of a data breach compilation that’s mind-boggling in its scale. This collection of …

An online community promoting female escorts and reviews of their services has suffered a data breach after a hacker downloaded the site's database.

A Washington agency examining how the state fell victim to massive unemployment fraud last year said Monday that files on 1.6 million claims that it obtained for its investigation have been exposed by a data breach — meaning people who already lost work due the pandemic might have to add identity theft to their difficulties.