A recent hack of Columbia University’s computer system compromised the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people, including students and applicants, new documents show. Over all, about 870,000 individuals were affected by the breach. The university provided draft notices to officials in Maine and California that it intends to send to affected parties in...Read More
ITV’s brilliant new drama The Hack is set to revisit the controversial phone-hacking scandal, which resulted in a popular newspaper being shuttered and many key players facing jail-time. David Tennant will play Nick Davies, the journalist who tirelessly worked to uncover the scandal, in which several journalists from the News of the World tabloid paper...Read More
Workday, a company that provides human resources technology to over 11,000 corporations and 70 million users worldwide, announced in a classic Friday news dump that it suffered a data breach. The company did not disclose how much information was stolen by the hackers, but did reveal that information—including the names, email addresses, and phone numbers—of...Read More
A scam is currently circulating on WhatsApp that could be very dangerous for you. Users are receiving seemingly harmless messages—usually from unknown numbers without unique names—and those messages contain nothing more than a photo along with a question along the lines of “Is that you?” or “Do you know this person?” It’s a clear attempt...Read More
Three private Chinese companies helped China carry out one of the boldest hacking operations to date, including snooping on text messages from Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s campaigns, according to a coalition of U.S. agencies and 12 allied governments. The operation, known as Salt Typhoon, hacked into telecommunication companies around the world, including AT&T and...Read More
It seems like there’s a new data breach every week. Whether it’s an insurance company with millions of customers or a major credit bureau with data on everyone, your personal devices don’t even have to be breached for your data to get lost. But then, every time you overshare on social media or use the...Read More
Hackers gained access to sensitive information on millions of Americans in a data breach targeting TransUnion, one of the nation’s big three credit bureaus. TransUnion confirmed an unauthorized “cyber incident” happened on July 28, affecting over 4.4 million people, according to legal disclosures filed this week with the offices of attorneys general in Maine and...Read More
Executive Summary On October 31, 2025, the University of Pennsylvania experienced a coordinated campaign in which offensive emails with the subject “We got hacked (Action Required)” were sent to students, alumni, and faculty from various university email addresses, including those associated with the Graduate School of Education. The emails claimed that university data had been...Read More
Insight Partners confirms 12,657 people affected by October 2024 ransomware attack Attackers exfiltrated and encrypted data; but no group has claimed responsibility Victims offered identity protection; no evidence of data misuse reported so far Months after suffering a cyberattack and confirming data theft, venture capital firm Insight Partners has started notifying affected individuals. The company...Read More
Just when you think the Discord data breach is coming to an end, a new twist emerges about the security incident that exposed the information and ID photos of over 70,000 users worldwide. Discord has now named 5CA, a third-party service provider, as the vendor at the root of the problem. However, 5CA denies any...Read More
