The first half of 2026 saw a renewed surge of widely felt cyberattacks and data breaches—with many indicators pointing to increased usage of AI-powered capabilities. Major incidents included zero-day ...

Vimeo has disclosed that data belonging to some of its customers and users has been accessed without authorization following the recent breach at the Anodot data anomaly detection company. The video ...

The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I ...

The data breach at education tech giant Instructure includes students' private data, according to a sample of the allegedly stolen data seen by TechCrunch.

A data breach is a security incident where an unauthorized individual accesses sensitive information. When a breach happens, personal, financial or confidential data can be exposed, stolen or misused.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

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, ...

Data compromise incidents hit a record of 3,322 in 2025, with 70 percent of related breach notices failing to explain how the breach happened, according to a new report from the Identity Theft ...

Booking a train ticket is usually something most people don't think twice about. Now it could come with real privacy risks after a reported data exposure tied to Amtrak. A newly surfaced dataset ...

When a healthcare data breach is first disclosed, the number of people affected is often far lower than the final tally. That figure frequently climbs as investigations continue. That's exactly what ...

ADT confirmed a data breach exposing customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and partial SSNs, with millions of records reportedly affected. ADT says its home security systems were not compromised ...