If you thought the startling number of yearly data breaches would spur tech companies to improve security, then buckle up, because the trend is only getting worse. Almost every year, we see an ...

An English Court has recently decided that three insurance policies covering the same loss – data breach settlements arising from an incorrectly addressed email – provided a combined, cumulative limit ...

Every year, TechCrunch looks back at the cybersecurity horror shows of the past 12 months — from the biggest data breaches to hacks resulting in weeks of disruption — to see what we can learn. This ...

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Around four months is the average time it takes for a company to report a data breach but certain industries take even longer, an analysis of ransomware attacks since 2018 finds. Companies often take ...

Data breaches have become so common that a basic formula has emerged for how organizations usually respond: advise customers to change their passwords, offer free credit monitoring, and suggest that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. In August 2021, hackers offered for sale on the Dark Web data of what they said was ...

A third-party data breach occurs when malicious actors compromise a vendor, supplier, contractor, or other organization to gain access to sensitive information or systems of the victim’s customers, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. Data breaches at colleges and universities are common. In the last 20 years ...

TriZetto Provider Solutions, a healthcare IT company that develops software and services used by health insurers and healthcare providers, has suffered a data breach that exposed the sensitive ...

Millions of AT&T customers can file claims worth up to $7,500 in cash payments as part of a $177 million settlement related to data breaches in 2024.The telecommunications company had faced a pair of ...

AT&T has reached a $177 million class action settlement for two data breaches that occurred in 2024. The breaches exposed the personal information of millions of current and former customers. Eligible ...