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National

AT&T says hackers stole 2022 call and text data from 'nearly all' cell customers

12:26pm July 12, 2024

by Rachel Treisman

AT&T believes the data, which was stolen in April, is no longer publicly available. Affected current and former customers will be notified by the company but can also check their status online.

Courts

Lawsuits filed after Novant Health data breach

4:24pm October 06, 2022

by April Laissle

Several lawsuits have been filed against Novant Health after the company admitted this summer that patient data may have been sent to Facebook.

A flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross flutters above the humanitarian organization's headquarters in Geneva on Sept. 29, 2021. The ICRC is pleading with hackers to keep stolen data confidential.

World News

Cyberattack on Red Cross compromised sensitive data on over 515,000 vulnerable people

12:57pm January 20, 2022

by Jenna McLaughlin

The attack targeted a contractor in Switzerland that was storing the data. The Red Cross has been forced to halt a program that reunites families torn apart by violence, migration or other tragedies.

Mobile says about 7.8 million of its current postpaid customer accounts' information and roughly 40 million records of former or prospective customers who had previously applied for credit with the company were involved in a recent data breach.

National

A T-Mobile Breach Exposed Nearly 50 Million People's Personal Data

9:44am August 18, 2021

Names, Social Security numbers and driver's license information were compromised; phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords and financial information were not.

British Airways CEO Alex Cruz says the carrier will reimburse any customer who loses money due to the data breach.

World News

British Airways Says Customers' Financial Data Was Hacked In 380,000 Transactions

3:15pm September 07, 2018

by Bill Chappell

"The stolen data did not include travel or passport details," the airline said. But hackers were able to access customers' names, email addresses and credit card information.

Panera Bread's website went down for part of Monday — eight months after the chain was warned that its site wasn't protecting sensitive customer data.

National

For Months, Panera Bread Website Reportedly Exposed Millions Of Customer Records

3:06pm April 03, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Panera's response was "half-baked," security analyst Brian Krebs said. Another researcher says he alerted the company to a "massive" flaw issue last August.

Politics & Government

Facebook: Firm Working With Trump Campaign Stole 50 Million Users' Data

7:29pm March 18, 2018

Cambridge Analytica has been suspended by Facebook for harvesting information from millions of users. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former Facebook product manager Antonio Garcia Martinez.

Queue Listen Now

Ronda Goldfein, attorney and executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, holds an envelope that revealed a person's HIV status through the clear window.

Aetna Agrees To Pay $17 Million In HIV Privacy Breach

6:18pm January 17, 2018

by Elana Gordon

Health insurer Aetna has reached a settlement with people whose privacy was compromised when their HIV status was visible through the clear address windows on envelopes sent to them.

News

Data Breach Affects Duke Energy Carolinas Customers

4:31pm December 05, 2017

by Bethany Chafin

Duke Energy customers may have had personal information exposed in a potential data breach that could affect over 370,000 customers, predominantly in the western Carolinas.

A new disclosure from Yahoo — now known as Oath after it was bought by telecom company Verizon — dramatically escalates the size of the 2013 hack revealed last year.

National

Every Yahoo Account That Existed In Mid-2013 Was Likely Hacked

5:27pm October 03, 2017

by Alina Selyukh

Yahoo says the massive hack, previously said to have affected 1 billion accounts, in fact likely compromised 3 billion accounts. However, the company says corrective actions have already been taken.