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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE HAS THAT ANSWER. YES, FOLKS, THAT LETTER YOU MAY BE GETTING FROM THE TRANSUNION CREDIT BUREAU IS REAL. LET ME SHOW YOU THE LETTER AND TELL YOU WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. THE LETTER ...

Prosper Marketplace has confirmed a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal data from more than 17 million users, highlighting ongoing challenges for financial institutions that manage sensitive ...

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 ...