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Should you be worried your data is in the ‘Mother of all Breaches?’

It turns out that much of the 26 billion records were scraped from other publicly known data breaches.

On Jan 24, 2024 by Mikael Thalen

Real Estate Database Leak Exposes Celebrities Addresses

Real estate database left sensitive data on celebrity homes unprotected—including addresses for Kylie Jenner and Britney Spears

More than 1.5 billion records were sitting on an unsecured server.

On Dec 21, 2023 by Mikael Thalen

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Notorious hacker wipes clean video hosting site for balloon ‘enthusiasts’

'There is no ETA on when we'd possibly come back from this.'

On Dec 12, 2023 by Mikael Thalen

Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach

Ransomware gang files complaint with SEC complaining victim didn’t promptly announce breach

The cybercrime gang claims its victim 'has not fulfilled' their obligation to report the breach.

On Nov 16, 2023 by Mikael Thalen

Woman says someone hacked into their Owlet baby monitor

‘Get rid of your wifi cameras’: Mom says someone hacked into their child’s Owlet baby monitor, would talk to her son during the night

'This exact situation happened to us and our Owlet went straight in the trash.'

On May 7, 2023 by Brooke Sjoberg

Customer says Delta Airlines leaked their private information to a random email

‘They’ve compromised a ton of data about myself as well as my family’: Customer says Delta Airlines leaked their private information to a random person

'This is a serious data privacy leak on behalf of Delta.'

On Apr 23, 2023 by Braden Bjella

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EXCLUSIVE: Breast pump company leaves millions of documents exposed—raising concerns over data safety in women’s healthcare

At least 7 million documents were exposed.

On Mar 27, 2023 by Mikael Thalen

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Hacked Twitter data includes phone numbers, personal emails for celebrities, prominent politicians

Private information such as email addresses and phone numbers are present in the leak.

On Nov 29, 2022 by Mikael Thalen

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The claim of a big TikTok ‘hack’ may just be internet bluster

'The code in question is completely unrelated to TikTok's backend source code.'

On Sep 6, 2022 by Mikael Thalen

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Meta hit with $18 million fine for a dozen violations of Europe’s GDPR

Meta argues that the issue stems from its record keeping practices and not the loss of user data.

On Mar 16, 2022 by Mikael Thalen

Miniature people: Worker hacking in padlock security

FCC wants telecom companies to be more transparent with data breaches

The proposal would eliminate a waiting period to notify customers of a breach.

On Jan 13, 2022 by Andrew Wyrich

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T-Mobile hit with 2 class-action lawsuits over massive data breach

Lawsuits are piling up in the wake of the massive data breach.

On Aug 23, 2021 by Andrew Wyrich

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Security expert on TikTok tells you what to do if you are worried about the T-Mobile hack

This is the fifth such attack on T-Mobile data in four years.

On Aug 19, 2021 by Phil West

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T-Mobile investigating alleged data breach affecting 100 million users

The phone carrier says it is 'actively investigating' the claim.

On Aug 16, 2021 by Andrew Wyrich

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Data from over 1 million Clubhouse accounts leaked online

It's been a rough few weeks for social media users and personal information.

On Apr 12, 2021 by Libby Cohen