Equifax has agreed to a settlement with the FTC stemming from a September 2017 data breach. If you’ve recently received a notification about the Equifax data breach settlement, you may be wondering if ...

Just days after Google publicly denounced the false reporting suggesting a massive Gmail security breach, here we are again with frighteningly big numbers that will likely trigger a raft of ...

INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE HAS THAT ANSWER. YES, FOLKS, THAT LETTER YOU MAY BE GETTING FROM THE TRANSUNION CREDIT BUREAU IS REAL. LET ME SHOW YOU THE LETTER AND TELL YOU WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. THE LETTER ...

The ShinyHunters hacking group has stolen 200 million records on Pornhub users and is holding them for ransom.

Credit exposes personal information of more than 5.8 million people through compromised third-party integration partner.

Another year, another round of data breaches. There have been more than 100 million victims of data breaches reported in 2024 as of Dec. 16, according to a ConsumerAffairs analysis of the Maine ...

Your inbox could contain real money—or a trap. I made two fake settlement claim sites in five minutes, and I'm here to tell you how to tell a legit settlement notice site from a data-stealing fake. I ...

Cybersecurity breaches are getting worse. As AI development continues apace, criminals are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to dupe unsuspecting individuals and gain access to your ...

Any data breach affecting 1.6 million people is serious. It draws even more attention when it involves a company trusted to guard passwords. That is exactly what happened to LastPass. The U.K.

Prosper Marketplace has confirmed a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal data from more than 17 million users, highlighting ongoing challenges for financial institutions that manage sensitive ...

30% of data breaches that occurred last year involved a third party, new research shows. According to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, during the year ended October 31, 2024, there ...

Around four months is the average time it takes for a company to report a data breach but certain industries take even longer, an analysis of ransomware attacks since 2018 finds. Companies often take ...