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The Cannon Corporation dba CannonDesign is sending notices of a data breach to more than 13,000 of its clients, informing that hackers breached and stole data from its network in an attack in...

It wasn't until earlier this month that a user named "Fenice" leaked 2.7 billion unencrypted records on the dark web site known as "Breached," in the form of two csv files totalling 277GB. These did not contain phone numbers and email addresses, and Fenice said that the data originated from SXUL. As individuals will each have multiple records associated with them, one for each of their previous home addresses, the breach does not expose information about 2.7 billion different people. Must-read security coverage What security experts are saying about the breach Why are the National Public Data records so valuable to cyber criminals?

Toyota confirmed that customer data was exposed in a third-party data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of stolen data on a hacking forum. [...]

The company identified the source of the data breach: a former employee used a gen AI copilot to access an internal database full of account data. In this article, we'll explore these challenges and show you how to secure your data in the era of gen AI. Gen AI's data risk.

​CSC ServiceWorks, a leading provider of commercial laundry services, has disclosed a data breach after the personal information of an undisclosed number of individuals was exposed in a 2023...

ADT Inc. disclosed via a Form 8-K filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that hackers have gained access to its systems, which hold customer order details. [...]

Both telecommunications provider Optus and private health insurer Medibank suffered large-scale data breaches affecting tens of millions of Australians, leading to heightened regulatory and business focus on cyber security in the years since. More Australia coverage Australia's privacy regulator alleges serious Medibank cyber security failures.

IBM released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report revealing the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million in 2024, as breaches grow more disruptive and further expand demands on cyber teams. Breach costs increased 10% from the prior year, the largest yearly jump since the pandemic, as 70% of breached organizations reported that the breach caused significant or very significant disruption.

"We discovered some unauthorized access to and potential disclosure of protected health information and/or personally identifiable information stored in an unstructured data repository outside our core systems," reads the data breach notice to be distributed to impacted individuals on August 9, 2024. The breached data repository, which HealthEquity clarified is outside its core systems, has now been secured by terminating unauthorized sessions and blocking IP addresses associated with the intruders.

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini is warning it suffered a data breach incident caused by a cyberattack at its Automated Clearing House service provider, whose name was not disclosed. According to the notification, Gemini suffered a third-party data breach when an unauthorized actor breached its vendor's systems between June 3 and June 7, 2024.