data breach

Genetic testing company 23andMe Holding Co. (NASDAQ:ME) is under fire in a class action lawsuit, accused of inadequately protecting the privacy of nearly 7 million customers whose personal information was compromised in a data breach last year.  The lawsuit, filed yesterday in federal court in San...

Major internet service provider Xfinity has reported a significant data breach. Unauthorized access to customer data has been confirmed, but the scope of the breach is still unclear. On Monday, Xfinity announced a “data security incident” that took place between Oct. 16 and October 19,...

Sony Group Corp. (NYSE: SONY) has recently disclosed a second security breach. The cyberattack was reported a week after an extortion group known as Ransomed.vc claimed responsibility for hacking into Sony's systems and stealing 3.14GB of data. This new breach dates back to May and involves the...

Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Fi shared information with customers about their data being exposed. It appears that T-Mobile US Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TMUS) latest data breach is the reason behind it.  What Happened: Google Fi customers are being notified that its "primary network...

General Motors Co (NYSE: GM) informed nearly 5,000 customers that hackers stole some of their personal data, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a data breach notice filed with California regulators. What Happened: Hackers breached some online accounts of GM customers in April and accessed...

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,...

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...