The biggest data breaches of 2026 so far, ranked by impact, with details on exposed data, affected users, and what readers ...

How Big Tech Stole Your Identity—and the New Model That Takes It Back” by Raj Ananthanpillai is released with Forbes Books.

Non-breach privacy claims — wrongful data collection, tracking technologies, and misuse of biometric data — are rapidly becoming a core risk category. The rapid integration of AI across business units ...

As data protection compliance becomes nonnegotiable with enforcement for breaches, indications are that focus will be on high-risk industries like fintech, healthcare to mention just a few. Making ...

Hackers accessed personal data belonging to 4,461,511 Americans in a cyber incident at TransUnion LLC, one of the three major ...

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.

A threat actor claims to have stolen a vast trove of sensitive data from the consulting giant Accenture in a recent ...

A major data breach tied to U.S. fintech firm Marquis is rippling through banks, credit unions and their customers. Hackers broke into Marquis systems by exploiting a known but unpatched vulnerability ...

Oklahoma-based Integris Health is facing two new class action lawsuits over a data breach suffered by one of its vendors just months after it settled a similar data breach case for $30 million, ...

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, ...