For the past few years, TechCrunch has looked back at some of the worst, badly handled data breaches and security incidents in the hope — maybe! — other corporate giants would take heed and avoid ...
On February 14, 2025, Xactus LLC filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Massachusetts after discovering that an unauthorized party was able to access a company email account. In ...
An examination of key data privacy and cybersecurity developments in 2024 and emerging trends and risks for 2025, including information on federal and state regulatory guidance and enforcement. The ...
2024 was a big year for cybersecurity, with significant cyberattacks, data breaches, new threat groups emerging, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities. Some stories, though, were more impactful or ...
Just two weeks into 2024, the cybersecurity world already had its first crisis of the year with the mass exploitation of Ivanti VPNs. The attacks would signal one of the major themes of cyberattacks ...
The number of records leaked in data breaches this year was greater than the number of people living in the U.S. In fact, one breach — from data broker National Public Data — was singly responsible ...
Top products from both cybersecurity industry giants and startups — across segments including security operations, data security and AI-powered email protection — made our end-of-year list. As ...
As articulated in the year-end cyber review last month, there were many headline-grabbing cybersecurity stories in 2024. So as we look back 12 months, what were the most popular “Lohrmann on ...
Large-scale data breaches and privacy violations have become a common occurrence over the past decade amid the vast collection of personal information online. In response, a plethora of data ...
The year 2024 threw up another diverse crop of stories in the world of cyber security, with much to pay attention to, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), which continued to ...
UnitedHealth has revealed that 190 million Americans had their personal and healthcare data stolen in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, nearly doubling the previously disclosed figure. In ...
Human error contributed to 95% of data breaches in 2024, driven by insider threats, credential misuse and user-driven errors, according to a new study by Mimecast. A ...