Over four years, Marriott hackers accessed millions of guest records, including names, mailing and email addresses, passport numbers, and birth dates. Here’s what we’re learning.
The massive data breach Facebook reported at the end of September isn’t quite as big as the company thought it might be. That might sound good, but it isn’t lik... Read More...
Like last week’s Kavanaugh hearings, Facebook’s acknowledgment of a cyberattack that led to a mass account reset alarmed officials and left key questions unanswered.
You can’t personally prevent a data breach, nor someone from attempting to defraud your insurance provider. But you can take steps to minimize how much a breach can affect you.
As technology has become the lifeblood of the health care industry, hospitals and patient care clinics are often ill-equipped to confront a Hydra-headed cybersecurity monstrosity.
The punishment for allowing a breach is usually a light slap on the wrist, if anything. And in the case of credit-reporting agencies, the standard punishment can even turn into profit. It's time to hold companies accountable for breaches.
A free year of a service like Equifax’s TrustID might feel like adequate identity theft protection. But experts say breach victims need much more than just credit monitoring, “indefinitely.”
In the wake of the Equifax breaches, consumers should get real “control of their credentials,” one privacy expert argues. In the meantime, they can push for incremental changes.
Following revelations of two of the biggest user account breaches ever, ex-Yahoo engineers are advocating ditching all of its services, including Mail, Flickr, and Tumblr.
Far beyond Yahoo's services, it’s time to delete your archived email, private messages, contacts, files, photos—anything you can’t afford to find its way into a hacker’s hands and beyond.
You’re not helpless. Here are five steps you can take when notified that your information has been involved in a breach to prevent further harm and protect yourself.
The Data Security and Breach Notification Act and the Data Security Act would pre-empt arguably stronger state laws and strip the FCC of authority over data security enforcement.
