Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...

Update: Story updated with confirmation that this was another Salesforce data theft attack and the types of data stolen. Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’re barely a couple of months into 2025, but this year has already seen several data breaches affecting the personal information of millions of individuals, including everything from student records ...

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, ...

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 ...

Media streaming platform Plex is warning customers to reset passwords after suffering a data breach in which a hacker was able to steal customer authentication data from one of its databases. In a ...

Coinbase, America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, received an unsolicited email from an unknown threat actor on May 11, 2025. They claimed to possess sensitive information about its customers and ...

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott is being sued for negligence over a data breach that took place back in April. The data breach impacted over 9,400 individuals associated with one of the firm's clients ...

DoorDash confirmed a data breach that exposed the names, email addresses, phone numbers and physical addresses of some of its users, including customers, dashers and merchants. In a Help Center ...

Australian businesses and government agencies reported more than 1,100 data breaches to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in 2024 – the highest annual total since mandatory ...