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T-Mobile data breach affects additional 5.3M customers
T-Mobile said an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers accessed personal information of an additional 5.3 million customers.
T-Mobile says hackers stole personal info of more than 40M people
The cyberattack that breached T-Mobile's computer network pulled personal data -- including Social Security numbers -- on over 40 million people, the cellphone carrier said.
T-Mobile probes data breach that reportedly affects nearly all US customers
T-Mobile is investigating claims of a massive data breach that reportedly may impact more than 100 million people, or nearly all of its US customers, according to a report. Claims...
TikTok removes nearly 62M videos for rule violations
Short-form video app TikTok said on Wednesday it had removed nearly 62 million videos from its platform during the first three months of the year for violating its guidelines, as it seeks...
Google must face shareholder lawsuit claiming it hid security risks
A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit in which shareholders of Google parent Alphabet accused Google of misleading them by concealing security vulnerabilities, including in its Google+ social...
Big hack: McDonald's is the latest company to be hit by data breach
McDonald's said Friday that a data breach in South Korea and Taiwan has exposed some customer and employee information, making it the latest global company to be targeted by cybercriminals....
TikTok faces claim for billions in London child privacy lawsuit
TikTok, the wildly popular video app, and its Chinese parent ByteDance could face a damages claim worth billions of pounds (dollars) in London's High Court over allegations they illegally harvested...
How ya like that: Facebook won't tell users if they were part of massive data leak
With "friends" like these... Facebook has not notified the more than half-billion users who were affected by a 2019 data leak -- and has no plans to do so, a...
Facebook says data on 530 million users was 'scraped' in 2019
Facebook on Tuesday said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 million users stemmed from a misuse of a feature in 2019 and that the company had plugged the...
Data breach impacts patient information at one of the largest US fertility networks
US Fertility, one of the largest networks for fertility clinics in the country, said hackers gained patient information -- including names, addresses and Social Security numbers -- through a malware...
Book publishers worry that Barnes & Noble hack will spur holiday snafus
Barnes & Noble has concluded that a cyberattack against its computer systems last month didn’t compromise customer data — even as publishers worry the aftereffects could muck up book distribution...
British Airways fined $25M over data breach
Regulators fined British Airways more than $25 million Friday for allegedly bungling a massive data breach that affected more than 400,000 people.
Barnes & Noble says shopper info may have been hacked
Barnes & Noble said the personal information of its shoppers may have been stolen after its computer systems were hacked. The bookseller told customers in an email Wednesday that hackers...
Cambridge Analytica ex-boss banned from running companies
The former boss of Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users’ private data, has been banned from holding company directorships...
Shopify says 'rogue' employees may have stolen customer data
Two "rogue" employees at Shopify may have stolen customer data from roughly 200 online merchants, the e-commerce platform revealed. The staffers were running a scheme to steal sellers' transactional records...
Sextortion is evolving in nasty ways during coronavirus pandemic
Sextortion is evolving into nastier ways to try to extort people. To date, the basic template for this cybercrime has been to claim people's accounts have been hacked, with the...
EasyJet cyber attack exposes personal info of millions
Hackers accessed personal information for millions of easyJet customers in a "highly sophisticated" cyber attack, the British budget airline said.
Another Marriott data breach exposes info of 5.2 million guests
Marriott is probing its second major data breach in just over a year -- one that may have exposed personal information for millions of hotel guests, the company said. The...
Personal info of 10.6M MGM hotel guests published on hacking forum
The personal details of more than 10.6 million people who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels — including Justin Bieber and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey — were published on a hacking...
More than 30M customers' data for sale on dark web after Wawa data breach
Payment and credit card information from more than 30 million Wawa customers was posted for sale Monday via the dark web forum Joker’s Stash, a website used by cybercriminals for...