A data breach is a security violation, in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen, altered or used by an individual unauthorised to do so. Other terms are unintentional information disclosure, data leak, information leakage and data spill.

April 14, 2023

Federal Agents Arrest US Serviceman Over Data Leak

A 21-year-old has been arrested in connection with the leak of top secret documents online.

February 25, 2023

Three Dutch millionaire hackers arrested

One of the hackers was a volunteer at DIVD, a cybersecurity organisation that works with law enforcement.

February 23, 2023

US Special Forces emails publicly accessible without password

USSOCOM used a public-facing Microsoft Azure server that had no security controls.

February 17, 2023

13,000+ Atlassian employees data leaked in hack

SiegedSec hacking group claimed responsibility for the breach that leaked employee data and floor plans over Telegram.

February 11, 2023

Reddit breached by "sophisticated" phishing attack

This email-based attack on the popular forum site led to the hacker accessing source code and employee data.

February 1, 2023

Google Fi informs customers their data was compromised by hackers

It looks like T-Mobile's data breach might be the source of the breach at Google Fi.