Data Breaches
Discover expert analysis on data breaches with news, features and insights from the team at IT Pro.
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 Google says reports of a 'huge' Gmail breach affecting millions of users are false, againNews Reports of a major Gmail affecting millions of users have been flooding the web this week – Google says they're "false" and you've nothing to worry about. By Ross Kelly Published News
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 Capita fined £14 million after it 'failed to ensure the security' of personal dataNews Capita CEO Adolfo Hernandez has since "accelerated" the company's cybersecurity transformation By Jane McCallion Published News
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 Everything we know about the Plex data breach so farNews Plex advised users to sign out of any connected devices that are currently logged in and enable two-factor authentication if they haven’t already. By Emma Woollacott Published News
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 Zscaler is the latest company hit in the expanding Salesloft Drift victims listNews The company has warned customers that their data may have been accessed, saying it's implemented extra safeguards in response By Emma Woollacott Published News
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 4.5 million people just had their data exposed in the TransUnion breachNews The credit reporting agency is believed to be the latest victim of a Salesforce-based attack By Emma Woollacott Published News
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 The Allianz Life data breach just took a huge turn for the worseNews Around 1.1 million Allianz Life customers are believed to have been impacted in a recent data breach, making up the vast majority of the insurer's North American customers. By Emma Woollacott Published News
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 Everything we know about the Workday data breach so farNews HR technology firm Workday has confirmed a data breach after threat actors gained access to a third-party CRM platform. By Ross Kelly Published News
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 6.4 million Bouygues Telecom customers just had their data exposed in a major data breachNews A broad range of customer data was exposed, according to Bouygues Telecom By Emma Woollacott Published News
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 Air France and KLM confirm customer data stolen in third-party breachNews A spokesperson told ITPro the airlines are investigating "fraudulent access" to customer data following a third-party breach. By Jane McCallion Published News
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 AI breaches aren’t just a scare story any more – they’re happening in real lifeNews IBM research shows proper AI access controls are leading to costly data leaks By Jane McCallion Published News
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 Everything we know about the Allianz Life data breach so farNews The company has confirmed in a filing that data was accessed earlier this month By Emma Woollacott Published News
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 26 million CVs were exposed when a recruiting software firm left a misconfigured Azure container openNews TalentHook left a misconfigured Azure Blob storage container open, researchers said, leaving jobseekers open to phishing attempts By Emma Woollacott Published News