700Credit Data Breach Impacts Millions of Car Owners

US auto loan service 700Credit confirms a data breach exposed names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of dealership customers. Free credit monitoring is offered...

Prosper data breach puts 17 million people at risk of identity theft

Peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper detected unauthorized activity on their systems on September 2, 2025. It published an FAQ page later that month to address the incident. During the incident, the attacker stole personal information belonging to Prosper customers and loan applicants. As...

Troops and veterans’ personal information leaked in CPAP Medical data breach

In December 2024, CPAP Medical Supplies and Services Inc. CPAP, a Jacksonville—a Florida-based provider of sleep therapy services and CPAP machines—experienced a cybersecurity incident that compromised the personal data of over 90,000 patients. Since CPAP Medical specializes in tailored sleep apn...

Personal data revealed in released JFK files

Over 60,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy were released as part of President Donald Trump’s directive on March 17, 2025, and while readers will not find a conclusive answer to the main question—nor will the files put an end to surrounding conspiracy...

Background check provider data breach affects 3 million people who may not have heard of the company

Employment screening company DISA Global Solutions has filed a data breach notification after a cyber incident on their network. DISA says a third party had access to its environment between February 9, 2024, and April 22, 2024. The attacker may have accessed over three million files containing...

Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information. Image: Tamer Tuncay,...

100 million US citizens officially impacted by Change Healthcare data breach

In April, we reported that a “substantial proportion” of Americans may have had their health and personal data stolen in the Change Healthcare breach. That was based on a report provided by the UnitedHealth Group after the February cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare. The attack on...

MoneyGram confirms customer data breach

Money transfer company MoneyGram has notified its customers of a data breach in which it says certain customers had their personal information taken between September 20 and 22, 2024. The investigation into the incident that was discovered on September 27 is still ongoing, and the number of...

It's best to just assume you’ve been involved in a data breach somehow

Between AT&T, all the follow-on activity from Snowflake, Microsoft Outlook, and more, its best to probably just assume at this point that your personal information has somehow been involved in a data breach. Were only halfway through 2024, and weve already seen some of the largest data breaches a...

Rite Aid says 2.2 million people affected in data breach

The US third-largest pharmacy chain Rite Aid has filed a data breach notification in which it reports that the data stolen during a June ransomware attack compromised the data of some 2.2 million people. Ransomware group RansomHub claimed responsibility for the attack that took place on June 6,...

Prudential Financial data breach impacts 2.5 million people, not 36,000 as first thought

In February 2024, Prudential Financial reported it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The attack was discovered one day after it started, but not before some 2.5 million people had been impacted by the resulting data breach. As one of the largest insurance companies in the US, Prudential...

Debt collection agency FBCS leaks information of 3 million US citizens

The US debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions FBCS has filed a data breach notification, listing the the total number of people affected as 3,226,631. FBCS is a nationally licensed, third-party collection agency that collects commercial and consumer debts, with most of i...

Fidelity National Financial acknowledges data breach affecting 1.3 million customers

In November 2023, real estate services company Fidelity National Financial FNF got its systems knocked offline for a week after a cyberincident. As is often the case these days, it turns out that the cyberincident was very likely a ransomware attack that included a data breach. Ransomware operato...

State of Maine data breach impacts 1.3 million people

The US State of Maine says it has suffered a data breach impacting around 1.3 million people. According to the census from July 2022, thats more or less the the entire population of Maine. The State of Maine says it was compromised via a known vulnerability in secure transfer service MOVEit...

Involved in a data breach? Here’s what you need to know

If you've received a message from a company saying your data has been caught up in a breach, you might be unsure what to do next. We've put together some tips which should help you when the more or less inevitable happens. 1. Check the companys advice Every breach is different, so check the...

Social Security Numbers leaked in ransomware attack on Ohio History Connection

The Ohio History Connection OHC has posted a breach notification in which it discloses that a ransomware attack successfully encrypted internal data servers. During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers SSNs of current and former OHC...

Tampa General Hospital half thwarts ransomware attack, but still loses patient data

The Tampa General Hospital TGH has promised to reach out to individuals whose information has been stolen by a ransomware group. In a cybersecurity notice, TGH said it noticed unusual activity on its computer systems on May 31, 2023. "Fortunately, TGHs monitoring systems and experienced technolog...

PharMerica breach impacts almost 6 million people

US pharmacy giant PharMerica has notified over 5.8 million people about a security incident in which it says personal information and medical information may have been obtained by cybercriminals. The Data Breach Notification lists the total number of persons affected as 5,815,591. An investigatio...

Maternal & Family Health Services discloses ransomware attack months after discovery

Maternal & Family Health Services MFHS, a nonprofit healthcare giant based in Pennsylvania, said in an advisory and press release that it has suffered a ransomware attack which led to the potential exposure of sensitive data of patients, employees, and vendors. That data includes names, addresses...

The Equifax Breach Settlement Offer is Real, For Now

Millions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying theyre eligible to claim a class action payment in connection with the 2017 megabreach at consumer credit bureau Equifax. Given the high volume of reader inquiries about this, it seemed worth pointing out that while this...