Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vowed to tighten breach notification rules to banks after a cyberattack of Optus affected 10 million customers, Reuters reports. Albanese called the breach “a huge wakeup call” as nearly 40% of the country's population had their personally identifiable info...

Optus, Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company, reportedly sustained a cyberattack, BBC News reports. Information stolen included personally identifiable information. The company announced it would notify customers if they are at “heightened” risk of their information being stolen. How...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced a $35 million settlement with multinational financial services provider Morgan Stanley Smith and Barney's wealth and asset management division related to alleged insufficient data protection measures for approximately 15 million customers over a ...

American Airlines notified customers the company experienced a data breach over the summer, Bleeping Computer reports. American Airlines discovered the breach July 5 and secured the “limited number" of employee email accounts that were compromised. The company determined employees’ and customers’ pe...

Uber learned an internal computer network was hacked Sept. 15 and took down several engineering and internal communications systems while it investigated, The New York Times reports. The alleged hacker reportedly “sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers...