Data Breach News

The Daily Hodl reports that Bank of America has notified affected customers of a March 6 incident in which documents were lost in transit: Bank of America says efforts to locate sensitive documents containing personal information on an undisclosed number of customers have failed. The North Carolina-based bank says it is unable to recover the documents, which […]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today notified Congress of a major information security incident, as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. This finding is the result of internal and independent third-party reviews of OCC emails and email attachments that were subject to unauthorized access. On February 11, 2025, the […]

The Guardian reports: Hackers have targeted Australian superannuation funds this week, with a small number of customers losing a combined half a million dollars, and compromising some members’ data, the industry’s peak body says. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said in a statement on Friday that hackers attempted to breach the cyber defences of […]

Here’s a reminder that sometimes, criminals lie. Yes, we know you may not really need that reminder, and sometimes criminals tell the truth and organizations lie or wordsmith, but in today’s news, The Register reports: A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of “highly sensitive” data from Check Point – something the […]

KXAN in Texas reports: Unsealed federal court records revealed “a security researcher and co-founder of Anonymous,” which is a worldwide hacking group, has been arrested in Canada and accused of allegedly hacking the Texas GOP website (texasgop.org) on Sept. 11, 2021. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Aubrey Cottle, […]