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Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, a leading Houston-based insurance provider, recently suffered a data breach that led to sensitive customer documents being exposed on the dark web. The incident has raised serious concerns about data privacy and security in the insurance sector. In an official letter sent to clients and regulators on April 8, 2025, Skyward […]
Hertz, the car rental giant, has started informing its customers about a data breach that exposed their personal information and driver’s licenses. The data breach occurred in hertz due to a cyberattack on one of its vendors between October and December 2024. The stolen data varies by region but mainly includes customer names, birthdates, contact […]
WK Kellogg Co., a U.S. food company, announced a data breach after cyber attackers targeted Cleo software. Cleo is used to transfer files securely, but hackers exploited two security flaws to steal data. These flaws, known as CVE-2024-50623 and CVE-2024-55956, allowed hackers to breach servers. Kellogg learned about the data breach on February 27, 2025. […]
Evolve Bank & Trust will pay $11.8 million to settle a class action lawsuit related to a 2024 data breach that exposed millions of customers’ personal information. Court documents filed Tuesday show that customers accused the Memphis-based bank of failing to maintain strong data security and delaying notification to those affected by the breach. In […]
The European Union (EU) is preparing to scale back its well-known data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The European Commission, which creates and enforces EU laws, plans to present a proposal in the coming weeks to make GDPR easier for businesses to follow. This is part of a broader effort by Commission […]
A massive data breach has allegedly compromised the personal and financial information of over 13 million Indian bank customers. A threat actor claimed responsibility for the hack, which they offered for sale to a single buyer for $10,000. The revelation has raised significant concerns about the state of data security in India’s banking sector. Details […]
Hospitals and organizations seeking cloud computing services for AI data analysis on sensitive records, like patient data, need guarantees of privacy during computation. Homomorphic encryption offers a solution by allowing computations without decrypting the data, keeping it secure. Challenges in Implementing Homomorphic Encryption Homomorphic encryption enables computations on encrypted data, keeping it secure and preventing […]
India’s data centre (DC) market has witnessed a remarkable surge, attracting more than $6.5 billion in investments through private equity, joint ventures, and acquisitions from 2014 to 2024, as per a report by real estate consultancy Anarock Capital. This influx of capital comes at a time when the DC industry has experienced significant growth in […]
Google Maps users have recently shared complaints on Reddit about their Timeline data — the app’s history of where they’ve been — disappearing. Google has now confirmed that it accidentally deleted this data and stated that those who weren’t using cloud backups will not be able to recover it. A Google spokesperson, explained in an […]