23andMe's defense as regards data privacy laws is essentially to claim that a data breach did not actually occur, given that the incident stemmed from the failure of certain users to change passwords that had been exposed elsewhere.
Comcast Xfinity leaked the personal information of nearly 36 million customers in a massive data breach stemming from an exploited Citrix vulnerability.
A new regulatory filing disclosed that genetic testing company 23andMe leaked the ancestry information of nearly 7 million users in the October 2023 data breach.
The largest messaging app in Japan, Line, has suffered a data breach leaking the personal information of its users, customers, and business partners. Data breach leaked 440,000 items of personal data.
IntelBroker claims to have broken into General Electric (GE) and stolen sensitive military files belonging to DARPA. GE has yet to confirm the data theft, only saying that it is still investigating the incident.
Samsung has disclosed a year-long data breach impacting UK online store customers. The cybersecurity incident which took placed in July 2019 - June 2020 was only disclosed in November 2023.
Postmeds’ Truepill data breach impacted over 2.3 million individuals and is the subject of a class-action lawsuit alleging the digital pharmacy's negligence.
The McLaren Health Care data breach impacted nearly 2.2 million patient records. The company confirmed the intrusion and unauthorized data access occurred in July-August 2023 and was discovered in Oct 2023. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claimed responsibility for the apparent ransomware attack.
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has filed an SEC complaint directed at MeridianLink, noting that the data breach took place over a week prior, and claims that new SEC rules require the victim to disclose a material impact within four business days.
Stanford University Department of Public Safety is investigating an alleged data breach by the Akira ransomware gang that stole 430 GB of data, including private information and confidential documents.
