Capital One Financial Corporation announced a data breach that affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada.

Sephora, a popular makeup and online store, was hit by a data breach that affected customers from Southeast Asia, New Zealand and Australia.

A K12.com database containing almost 7 million student records was left open so that anyone with an internet connection could access it, says a news report. 

NY Governor Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security - or SHIELD - Act, which imposes stronger obligations on businesses handling private data to provide proper notification to affected consumers when there is a security breach.

Facebook, Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty, and submit to new restrictions and a modified corporate structure that will hold the company accountable for the decisions it makes about its users’ privacy.

The Utah Attorney General announced a historic $600 million nationwide settlement with Equifax concerning the 2017 Equifax data breach affecting more than 147 million Americans, and more than 1.2 million Utahns

US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke into an unknown number of customer accounts via the Samsung.com "add a line" website.

Desjardins Group Chief Executive Guy Cormier said the credit union federation will offer free, permanent data protection to all its members in the wake of last month's data breach that affected 2.7 million individuals. 

Seventy-two percent of respondents in a survey say they recycle passwords, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attacks.