Cybernews reports that accounts worldwide impacted by data breaches dropped from 302 million during the first six months of 2024 to 15.8 million during the first six months of 2025, signifying a nearly 20-fold decline.
Major South Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom has been ordered to pay a record fine of $97.2 million for an April cyberattack that compromised more than 23 million mobile users' SIM card details, The Korea Herald reports.
Chinese state-sponsored advanced persistent threat group Salt Typhoon was noted by FBI Cyber Division Deputy Assistant Director Michael Machtinger to have potentially pilfered nearly all Americans' data as part of a cyberespionage campaign that has been ongoing since 2019, The Register reports.
HackRead reports that more than half of the most downloaded foreign mobile apps in the U.S. with highly aggressive data gathering and sharing practices were based in China.
More than 624,000 individuals were confirmed to have had their personal information compromised following a cyberattack against Healthcare Services Group last year, according to SecurityWeek.
Major U.S. mathematical computing and simulation software developer MathWorks had data from more than 10,000 people stolen following a ransomware attack discovered in May, reports Cybernews.
Discord had 1.8 billion messages from 35 million users claimed to have been stolen by an Estonia-based data scraping service, which touted access to the pilfered information on a widely known data leak forum, Cybernews reports.
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