Data Security

Such a significant increase in victimization comes amid a 14% increase in the number of data breaches, as well as a 23% growth in driver's license data exfiltration between the first half of 2023 and the first half of 2024, according to a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center.

The U.S. Postal Service has confirmed halting the sharing of its online customers' postal addresses with Meta, Snap, and LinkedIn following a TechCrunch report detailing its disclosure of customer details via tracking pixels across its website.

Druva's introduction of such functionality has been accompanied by the expansion of its free Managed Data Detection and Response service to customers around the world.

There’s a lot swirling around the massive AT&T data breach. Here’s what we know so far.

Further investigation of the leaked 38 TB dataset revealed links to another storage repository with 89,475 records belonging to backend technology provider Legal Connect, which shares the same parent firm as Rapid Legal.

Included in the leak were information from Heritage's blogs and right-wing media site The Daily Signal, such as full names, usernames, passwords, and email addresses, as well as those belonging to the U.S. government.

Hong Kong-based computer hardware manufacturer Zotac had more than 20,000 data entries, including return merchandise authorization files, serial numbers, and personal details accidentally leaked after being uploaded to a publicly accessible file server, enabling the viewing of such information via Google search, Digital Trends reports.

Neiman Marcus was reported by Have I Been Pwned founder Troy Hunt to have had more than 31 million email addresses compromised in a May data breach, which the U.S. luxury retailer disclosed in a filing with Maine regulators to have only impacted 64,472 individuals, according to BleepingComputer.