Privacy

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

Records of over 100 million AT&T customers' calls and texts affected — “nearly all.”

Assessment of the leaked dataset revealed the compromise of millions of customer service tickets, some of which pertained to senior-ranking U.S. military officials.

While no federal data privacy law is in sight, many more states are passing formal privacy laws, so momentum for digital rights has been growing.

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.

Major e-commerce platform Shopify announced that none of its systems had been breached following the claims of the 888 threat operation alleging the theft of the e-commerce giant's data, BleepingComputer reports.