France’s Ministry of Economics, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty recently revealed that an unknown attacker accessed the French government’s database listing every bank account in the ...

A malicious actor compromised a French national banking database and exposed personal and financial information tied to 1.2 million bank accounts, the French government recently announced. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about privacy including AI, privtech, data justice and law. 23andMe’s bankruptcy announcement on March 23rd triggered ...

Update, March 8, 2025: This story, originally published March 7, has been updated with details of more data that Google has confirmed it will be deleting unless account holders take swift action to ...

A massive and alarming data breach has exposed nearly 150 million personal accounts and login credentials in an unsecured database that was freely accessible on the internet without encryption or ...

Many 23andMe customers signed up to the genetic testing service in hopes of learning fun or interesting information about their past. But consumer advocates are now urging those users to request the ...

For the past few years, TechCrunch has looked back at some of the worst, badly handled data breaches and security incidents in the hope — maybe! — other corporate giants would take heed and avoid ...