data breach

The sensitive details of an undisclosed number of active U.K. military personnel have been compromised in a major breach of data security. According to media reports, the Chinese state was behind the cyber attack. What Happened: The UK government is set to disclose the breach to Members of...

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has acknowledged a significant data breach that has impacted millions of its customers, saying their passcodes have been compromised. What Happened: During the weekend, the telecommunications company confirmed that “a number of AT&T passcodes have been...

Genetic testing company 23andMe Holding Co. (NASDAQ:ME) is under fire in a class action lawsuit, accused of inadequately protecting the privacy of nearly 7 million customers whose personal information was compromised in a data breach last year.  The lawsuit, filed yesterday in federal court in San...

Major internet service provider Xfinity has reported a significant data breach. Unauthorized access to customer data has been confirmed, but the scope of the breach is still unclear. On Monday, Xfinity announced a “data security incident” that took place between Oct. 16 and October 19,...

Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Fi shared information with customers about their data being exposed. It appears that T-Mobile US Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TMUS) latest data breach is the reason behind it.  What Happened: Google Fi customers are being notified that its "primary network...

General Motors Co (NYSE: GM) informed nearly 5,000 customers that hackers stole some of their personal data, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a data breach notice filed with California regulators. What Happened: Hackers breached some online accounts of GM customers in April and accessed...

Financial services company Robinhood Markets Inc (NASDAQ: HOOD) reported a data security incident where the personal information of over seven million users was compromised. What Happened: In a statement on Monday, Robinhood, which allows trading of stocks and cryptocurrencies on its...

T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is investigating an online forum post that claims the personal data of over 100 million users have been compromised, Vice reports. A hacker claims to have gained access to the T-Mobile servers obtaining data, including social security numbers,...

A Chinese software developer sifted Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s (NYSE: BABA) Taobao shopping website for eight months and secretly collected over 1.1 billion pieces of user information before Alibaba noticed, the Wall Street Journal reported from a Chinese court verdict....

Canada Post said on Wednesday that a cyberattack and data breach on an electronic data interchange (EDI) supplier has compromised information from 44 of its large parcel business customers, affecting nearly 1 million recipients.  The attack on Ontario-based Commport Communications compromised the...

Microsoft Inc (NASDAQ: MSFT) owned professional network platform, LinkedIn, suffered a massive data hack compromising 500 million user profiles, the quint reports based on CyberNews. The data hack included users’ email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) does not plan to notify more than 530 million users whose personal information was leaked online in a massive data breach, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing a Facebook spokesman. What Happened: The social media company's spokesman said it was not confident on...

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) was among the several companies that were impacted by a massive security-camera breach, with hackers gaining access to live footage from the electric car maker’s factories and warehouses, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. What Happened: According to the report, a group of...

In more trouble for the Chinese tech giant, Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (NYSE: BABA)-backed Indian grocer BigBasket suffered a massive data breach affecting a million users, Bloomberg reports. The cyberattack comes a few weeks after another Alibaba-backed e-...

Singapore-based Lazada Group, an e-commerce company owned by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (NYSE: BABA), disclosed that 1.1 million users were affected in a data breach. According to CNBC, all affected users were part of the RedMart database — the company's...