Marks & Spencer confirms cybersecurity incident amid ongoing disruption

Retail giant Marks & Spencer has confirmed a cybersecurity incident, as customers report ongoing disruption and…

Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed ‘dangerous and dumb’

A Florida draft bill that would require social media companies to provide encryption backdoors for law…

Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach

Car rental giant Hertz has begun notifying its customers of a data breach that included their…

Someone hacked ransomware gang Everest’s leak site

A leak site used by the Everest ransomware gang was hacked and defaced this weekend, TechCrunch…

Oracle under fire for its handling of separate security incidents

Tech giant Oracle is facing criticism for how it’s handling two seemingly separate data breaches.  At…

API testing firm APIsec exposed customer data during security lapse

API testing firm APIsec has confirmed it secured an exposed internal database containing customer data, which…

NHS vendor Advanced to pay £3M fine following 2022 ransomware attack

NHS vendor Advanced will pay just over £3 million ($3.8 million) in fines for not implementing…

23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic data 

DNA and genetic testing firm 23andMe is in turmoil following a 2023 data breach and its…

DNA testing company 23andMe files for bankruptcy protection, CEO resigns

Genetics testing company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. to initiate…

Federal judge blocks DOGE’s access to Social Security Administration’s banks of personal information

A federal judge on Thursday issued an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from…

Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users

A consumer-grade spyware operation called SpyX was hit by a data breach last year, TechCrunch has…

US teachers’ union says hackers stole sensitive personal data on over 500,000 members

The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), a labor union representing educators across the state, says hackers…

What PowerSchool won’t say about its data breach affecting millions of students

We’re only a few months into 2025, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool…

Hacker accessed PowerSchool’s network months before massive December breach

A hacker compromised the U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool months before its ‘massive’ data breach in December,…

Japanese telco giant NTT Com says hackers accessed details of almost 18,000 organizations

Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed that hackers accessed the data of almost…

Hacked health firm HCRG demanded journalist ‘take down’ data breach reporting, citing UK court order

A U.S.-based independent cybersecurity journalist has declined to comply with a U.K. court-ordered injunction that was…

Lee Enterprises ransomware attack hits freelance and contractor payments

As disruption from a suspected ransomware attack on newspaper publishing giant Lee Enterprises span into its…

The biggest data breaches of 2025 — so far

We’re barely a couple of months into 2025, but this year has already seen several data…

Hackers publish sensitive patient data allegedly stolen from Australian IVF provider Genea

Hackers claim to have published a trove of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a…

US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of more than 3M people

DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data…

A huge trove of leaked Black Basta chat logs expose the ransomware gang’s key members and victims

A trove of chat logs allegedly belonging to the Black Basta ransomware group has leaked online,…

UK healthcare giant HCRG confirms hack after ransomware gang claims theft of sensitive data

U.K. healthcare giant HCRG Care Group has confirmed it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident after a ransomware…