data breach

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,...

First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) has agreed to a $487,616 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that resolves charges related to a data breach that exposed confidential customer information. What Happened: The SEC alleged that First American Financial received...

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...

Total Quality Logistics (TQL) says it will continue to work with an expert cybersecurity firm to find out how external hackers breached its IT systems and gained access to some carriers' sensitive business information. Tom Millikin, corporate communications manager of TQL, told FreightWaves the...

Carriers were notified around 11 a.m. on Thursday that external hackers had breached Total Quality Logistics (TQL) IT systems and may have gained access to customers' business information. According to an email sent out to carriers by Kerry Bryne, president of TQL, hackers may have gained access...

Macy's Inc (NYSE: M) acknowledged in a letter to customers it was the victim of a data breach and personal information could have been compromised. What To Know About The Macy's Data Breach Macy's believes an unauthorized third party gained access to its system and added an unauthorized...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google unit is actively storing and analyzing patient data with the major hospital system Ascension in an initiative dubbed Project Nightingale.  Howley: Nothing Illegal Google's relationship with Ascension dates back a year and is fully...

Internet security veteran Censys Inc. provides digital asset tracking and advanced detection services, which are used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and several Fortune 500 companies. As technology and data services evolve, it's increasingly imperative for companies and individuals...