SEOUL, Feb 10 (Reuters) - South Korean officials blamed a massive ⁠data ⁠leak last year at Coupang on management failure, ⁠rather than a sophisticated cyberattack, and urged the e-commerce giant to ...

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, ...

A data breach is a cyberattack, although not all cyberattacks are data breaches. A good example of this is a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), which is a cyberattack where bad actors ...

The cost of a data breach dropped from $4.88 million to $4.44 million this year, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025. One part of IBM’s report focuses on the factors that affect the ...

The financial services sector suffered the most data breaches of any industry in 2025, topping the list for the second year in a row even as the total number of data compromises in the U.S. hit a ...

In a recent column, I described the recent data breach at Allianz Life which potentially affects 1.4 million people. The data included in this data breach included names, addresses, birth dates, ...

After suffering two significant data breaches in recent years, AT&T has agreed to pay $177 million to customers affected by the incidents. Some individuals could receive as much as $5,000 as part of ...

A federal identity monitoring program created after the hack is ending, affecting employees whose information was exposed and raising questions about long-term responsibility once protections expire.

On January 5, 2026, Gulshan Management Services, Inc. filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Vermont after discovering that hackers gained access to its information systems. In ...

ShinyHunters stole Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses from franchise applicants, then published a 9.4-gigabyte archive after 7-Eleven refused to pay. If you’ve ever applied to open a ...