Equifax has agreed to a settlement with the FTC stemming from a September 2017 data breach. If you’ve recently received a notification about the Equifax data breach settlement, you may be wondering if ...

Data breaches have become so routine that many users barely react to them anymore. Another headline, another apology, ...

Just days after Google publicly denounced the false reporting suggesting a massive Gmail security breach, here we are again with frighteningly big numbers that will likely trigger a raft of ...

INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE HAS THAT ANSWER. YES, FOLKS, THAT LETTER YOU MAY BE GETTING FROM THE TRANSUNION CREDIT BUREAU IS REAL. LET ME SHOW YOU THE LETTER AND TELL YOU WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT. THE LETTER ...

Another year, another round of data breaches. There have been more than 100 million victims of data breaches reported in 2024 as of Dec. 16, according to a ConsumerAffairs analysis of the Maine ...

Your inbox could contain real money—or a trap. I made two fake settlement claim sites in five minutes, and I'm here to tell you how to tell a legit settlement notice site from a data-stealing fake. I ...

Data broker giant LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a Georgia-based American data analytics company, has revealed that attackers stole the personal information of over 364,000 individuals in a December ...

Cybersecurity breaches are getting worse. As AI development continues apace, criminals are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to dupe unsuspecting individuals and gain access to your ...

Data breaches are no longer just a problem for the tech industry. They've become a constant across every sector, from airlines to banks to fashion brands, exposing personal data and leaving customers ...

If customers can't trust you with their data, it will hurt your bottom line. Find out what you need to do to secure your business’s data.

Around four months is the average time it takes for a company to report a data breach but certain industries take even longer, an analysis of ransomware attacks since 2018 finds. Companies often take ...

You’ve probably been impacted by a data breach, even if you don’t know it. Major data breaches – like the national public data breach which comprised sensitive data of over half of the US population – ...