The 2019 Travelers Risk Index has found that cyber risks are the top concern among businesses of all sizes for the first time since the survey began in 2014,

Online dating app Heyyo left a server exposed on the internet without a password, disclosing the personal details, images, location data, phone numbers and dating preferences for nearly 72,000 users, believed to be the app's entire userbase.

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer pushed a multifaceted plan to prevent hackers from taking schools and the personal information of New York students hostage.

Ecuador is pushing to pass a privacy law after the massive data breach that affected more than 20 million individuals.

Yahoo will pay $117.5 million to settle the data breaches that occurred between 2012-2016.

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and former tech entrepreneur, wrote to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and South Korean company Suprema HQ, following separate but alarming incidents that impacted both entities and exposed Americans’ personal, permanently identifiable data.

Ecuador is investigating a data breach in which the personal data of up to 20 million people was made available online.

This summer, more than one million Capital One clients had their information breached, furthering the financial sector’s infamous reputation of being the most breached industry with 35 percent of all data breaches. 

A new report by Risk Based Security says  that 2019 is on track to being the “worst year on record” for data breach activity.

Carle Foundation Hospital (“Carle”), three Urbana, Illinois-based hospitals, suffered a data breach due to a phishing incident.