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Privacy Tip #495 – What We Can Learn from The Worst Breaches of 2026

I Reverse-Engineered 50 API Breaches. The Same Five Mistakes Keep Appearing.

Between December 22, 2025 and January 15, 2026, an attacker spent 24 consecutive days inside Navia Benefit Solutions' systems. They quietly and methodically pulled Social Security...

Doxim Data Breach Settlement Underscores Third-Party Data Security Risk

Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability Exploits Overtake Credentials as Top Access Vector

Verizon DBIR finds 31% of data breaches began with software flaws last year

Billions Of Emails, Passwords, Login Credentials Exposed In Massive Data Breach

A massive online exposure could put countless accounts at risk.Cybernews researchers found an unsecured database containing 24 billion records, including usernames, email addresses...

Nintendo America Employee Data Exposed After Shadowbyt3$ Targets TinyPulse

Nintendo America employee records were exposed via TinyPulse after Shadowbyt3 claimed theft of HR files, tax forms, bank data, and staff survey responses.

The worst hacks and breaches of 2026 (so far)

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and da...

KDDI Breach Affects Six Japanese ISPs, Exposes 14.2 Email Credentials

Customers of the affected Japanese email services are “strongly advised” to change their email passwords

Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report Highlights

I am a big fan of Verizon’s yearly Data Breach Investigations Report. I follow it closely, as it confirms what we are seeing in the field, and provides validation for defense strat...

Small Firms Hit Hardest As Data Breaches Surged In 2025

Cyberattacks targeting law firms remained widespread in 2025, with smaller firms accounting for the majority of reported breaches, according to a Law360 Pulse analysis. The pace sh...

AssuranceAmerica MGA breach exposes policyholder data in employee-targeted attack

A March phishing breach on an employee gave unauthorized access to SS numbers, auto insurance records, and claims data held across the MGA's agent network

Insurance Giant Aflac Discloses Data Breach Impacting Millions

Aflac Japan has notified regulators that policy details and personal and banking information have been compromised

Hackers Just Hit a State Wildlife Database in a Massive Security Breach. Experts Warn Others Could Be Next

State officials have confirmed that a major vendor breach exposed driver’s licenses and passport numbers. Cybersecurity experts warn the data has a dangerously “long shelf life.”

Infinite Campus Data Breach Exposes 137,000 Users Personal Details

Infinite Campus, a widely used student information system in U.S. K-12 schools, has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 137,000 individuals. The incident has been linke...

Terabytes of data dumped on the dark web after US insurance regulator hacked

Major hack shows new cyberattack extortion methodology on the rise

Trump Mobile Exposes Customer Data in Breach

Security flaw hits T1 phone customers as pre-order claims face scrutiny

Old Breaches Resold as New Corporate Data Leaks

Dark web data brokers are increasingly recycling old breach data and marketing it as fresh corporate leaks. The activity, largely observed in Chinese-language cybercrime forums and...

Texas TPWD Vendor Breach Exposes 3 Million Customer Records

Texas Cyber Command has disclosed a massive third-party data breach affecting the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), exposing the personal records of exactly 3,087,721 ind...

Carnival Cruise Just Had a Massive Data Breach

Nearly 6 million people had their information stolen.

114 million national identity numbers have been leaked online since 2004

New Surfshark research analyzing global data breach statistics from 2004 to 2026 shows that 113.6 million national identification numbers

Personal Data Stolen From 6M People As Major Cruise Company Suffers Massive Data Breach

Nearly 6 million people had their personal information stolen in a data breach claimed by a notorious hacking group against the world's largest cruise company.Carnival Corporation...

Cyberattacks & Class Actions: What Small Businesses Should Know After Recent Data Breaches

A cyberattack used to be an IT problem. Today it is a litigation problem. When a hacker walks off with a few thousand customer records, the breach itself is only the first event. T...

Carnival data breach exposes personal information of nearly 6 million cruise passengers

Carnival Cruise Line revealed it suffered a data breach that may have compromised the personal information of millions of passengers. The company announced on May 27 that its IT...

Blank Rome Hit With Two Class Actions After Data Breach Exposes 57,000 Clients

The FBI warned law firms about this exact scam. The post Blank Rome Hit With Two Class Actions After Data Breach Exposes 57,000 Clients appeared first on Above the Law.