Digital Privacy Watch

Insider threats from former staff continue to endanger public data, with a Washington DSHS ex-employee improperly accessing personal details of around...

• Catholic Health case: Serviceaide's $1.8M settlement covers 480,000+ patients from 2024 breach, offering up to $5,000 documented losses plus $50...

• Targeted June 18 attack let an intruder access specific H-drive folders used by students and employees, then steal and delete the data
• Impacted...

• Incident details: Unauthorized access occurred September 28 to October 8, 2024, impacting names, SSNs, dates of birth, student IDs, driver's...

• Dual exposure: Markel Insurance breach revealed Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and medical information.
• Scope: At least 268...

Data breach costs are climbing sharply in the US at $10.22M per incident, with ransomware pushing totals to $5.13M and shadow AI adding $670K more....

Sen. Mark Warner called the DHS Homeland Security Information Network breach "deeply concerning," noting the sensitive unclassified data risks...

Major Data Breaches

• 🔥 TransUnion Breach: Hackers accessed personal data of 4,461,511 Americans at TransUnion, requiring immediate credit...

A rural Minnesota health system's breach exposed Social Security numbers, medical records, and other sensitive data affecting patients in Texas and Massachusetts, raising the stakes for financial and medical identity theft in underserved areas.

Over 1.1 million South Carolinians were affected by 41 reported data breaches in the first half of 2026, with financial firms alone impacting 801,652...

Mid-market firms face rising shadow AI risks as employee adoption outpaces governance.

• 49% of workers use unapproved AI tools, often uploading...

A cyberattack by ShinyHunters has exposed personal data of more than 2.3 million students, donors, alumni, and supporters at the Moody Bible...

• June 15: Threat actor contacts AdaptHealth claiming stolen data
• June 27: Company deems incident material due to PHI and PII exposure
• July 2:...

• Vulnerability exploitation jumped to 31% of breaches, overtaking credential theft at 13%, driven by AI-accelerated exploits.
• Patch edge devices...

Smaller breaches still fuel identity theft risks when names or SSNs combine with prior leaks.

• Northern Technologies: Names exposed Feb 2026;...

Recent breaches exposed data of tens of millions of Americans across credit, entertainment, and telecom sectors.

• TransUnion breach affected 4.46...

Data Breach Alerts

• 🔥 Texas Parks and Wildlife Breach: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is notifying more than three million residents...

2024's record 725 large healthcare breaches exposed ~289 million individuals, driven largely by single points of failure like Change Healthcare. With...

Energy and utilities face ongoing exposure across OT, ransomware, and grid systems.

• Verizon logged 638 utilities incidents and 597 data disclosures...

A breach at a third-party vendor exposed driver's licenses, passports, and contact details of over 3 million Texas Parks and Wildlife residents, underscoring vendor-access risks and prompting the agency to offer one year of free credit monitoring.