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According to a new survey by Consumer Reports, 15 percent of all U.S. consumers were victims of personal data breaches in 2013.

Following a break-in at a county health contractor's office that led to the theft of computers containing personal information about more than 342,000 patients, Los Angeles County supervisors moved to tighten protocols for protecting data.

The records from staff, faculty and students date back to 1998 and include social security numbers, names and dates of birth.

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The federal government had a record number of data breaches in 2012, revealing sensitive personal information of its employees across multiple agencies, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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California attorney general Kamala Harris said that encryption could have prevented a lot of data breaches.

Leaders of the House Veterans Affairs Committee suggest that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki may have been misled about multiple breaches of department computers since

The company said a small amount of information was contained in the hacked e-mail accounts.

Hacker is believed to have breached Uber's entire network in a social engineering attack, which one security vendor says is more extensive than the company's 2016 global data breach and access logs potentially altered.

The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised more than 130 other organizations during their hacking spree that netted the credentials of close to 10,000 employees. TechCrunch: Twilio's recent network intrusion allowed the hackers to access the data of 125 Twilio customers and...

The unprecedented move follows allegations that Big Tech’s self-regulatory effort has failed to hold companies accountable for security lapses

More than 3 billion user credentials were just posted online as part of a data breach compilation that’s mind-boggling in its scale. This collection of …

An online community promoting female escorts and reviews of their services has suffered a data breach after a hacker downloaded the site's database.

A Washington agency examining how the state fell victim to massive unemployment fraud last year said Monday that files on 1.6 million claims that it obtained for its investigation have been exposed by a data breach — meaning people who already lost work due the pandemic might have to add identity theft to their difficulties.

​Mobile network operator USCellular suffered a data breach after hackers gained access to its CRM and viewed customers' accounts.

On Data Privacy Day, here's a reminder that breaches can affect you long after your data is stolen.

A court application alleges that Markham-based Living Realty took two months to inform its clients that their personal data had been hacked.

Nearly 6,000 accounts containing the personal information of students in Montgomery County, Maryland, were exposed due to data breaches that went as far back as September.

Around 200 million players of the popular Words With Friends and Draw Something games from Zynga have had their accounts’ information stolen by “outsi

DoorDash confirmed it suffered a data breach affecting roughly 4.9 million delivery people and merchants.