Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse in terms of cybersecurity bad news this week, the FBI has revealed a staggering database of 630 million compromised passwords from multiple devices ...

News broke on Wednesday about a “record-breaking data breach” of 16 billion passwords that could give hackers access to Facebook, Google, Apple and virtually any other service account. The news spread ...

The outdoor and fitness retailer says attackers used a credential-stuffing attack to access the customer accounts. Here's what you need to know. Bree Fowler writes about cybersecurity and digital ...

Password audits often focus on complexity rules but miss the accounts attackers actually target. Specops Software explains how breached passwords, orphaned users, and service accounts can leave ...

It's not your fault if your data is lost in a breach; it means somebody else made a mistake. The crypto investors who lost $1.4 billion in the ByBit crypto exchange hack trusted the exchange to ...

Cybercriminals say they stole sensitive records by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability known as React2Shell and using the ...

It's not your fault if your data is lost in a breach; it means somebody else made a mistake. The crypto investors who lost $1.4 billion in the ByBit crypto exchange hack trusted the exchange to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Looking back at 2025, it isn’t hard to pick out the biggest ...

If you have ever been the victim of a security breach, you are not alone. According to a 2019 survey by Google and Harris Poll, four in 10 Americans have had their personal data compromised online, ...

When headlines break about a financial systems breach, most people assume malware was involved. Ransomware. Exploits. A zero-day vulnerability. But in February 2026, French authorities confirmed ...

If you just got an email from The North Face saying that your account has been compromised, it's probably because you phoned it in when it came to setting your password on its website. The outdoor ...