Data disasters resulting from cyberattacks and ransomware dominate news headlines. However, the most consistent and costly threats are actually caused by human error ...

The Illinois Department of Human Services disclosed recently that it mistakenly uploaded private health-related information ...

The European Space Agency has confirmed that science servers have been hacked. Attackers claim that 200 GB of data has been compromised.

Enhancing Threat Detection Accuracy Automated tools efficiently process large volumes of data. They identify irregularities and trends that may indicate cyber threats. Machine learning algorithms ...

One of the largest data breaches ever seen has recently hit the public, sharing 16 billion brand-new leaked login credentials. While major data breaches of this scale are typically full of billions of ...

St. Mary's parent Covenant Health initially said fewer than 10,000 patients were affected. It now says the data of 478,000 ...

A trove of some four terabytes (TB) of confidential data from consulting giant EY was found completely exposed to the public internet. The leak, uncovered by researchers from Neo Security and first ...

Research submitted to the UK Parliament has revealed explicit threats to life and the deaths of family members and colleagues directly linked to the Ministry of Defence's 2022 Afghan relocation scheme ...

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 ...

How Does Effective NHI Management Enhance Breach Prevention Strategies? What are organizations doing to protect against breaches caused by compromised Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and secrets? Where ...

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 ...

The data breaches of AT&T customers occurred in March and July of 2024 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also published stories in ...