#data-breach

#data-breach

The Qantas data, which was stolen from a Salesforce database in a major cyber-attack in June, included customers' email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. It did not contain credit card details, financial information or passport details. On Saturday the group marked the data as leaked, writing: Don't be the next headline, should have paid the ransom.

State Rep. Josh Schriver, R-Oxford, who has called porn a scourge and compared it to heroin, introduced legislation in September to ban online pornography statewide. But data reviewed by Metro Times show that an account linked to his personal AOL email address appeared in a data breach from Fling.com, a pornographic dating site that features live web cams and promised users they could find sex and get laid tonight.

If you used the ParkMobile app to pay for parking at a meter several years ago, you might be getting a payment as a result of a data breach. Unfortunately, it's probably not an amount you'd expect for the inconvenience of having your data exposed. And while it's a comically low amount, don't spend it all in one place, because, well.... You're literally not allowed to.

Renault and Dacia have warned their UK customers that personal data has been stolen in cyber-attack, and the breach took place via the brands third party providers and not their own systems. In an email to affected customers, Renault said: "We are very sorry to inform you about a cyber attack on one of our third-party providers, leading to some Renault UK customers' personal data being taken from one of their systems."

The stolen information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, government-issued ID details, and other information that customers shared in relation to their travel needs, including accommodation requests and complaints. For WestJet Rewards members, membership details, such as WestJet Rewards ID number and points balance, and other account information may have been compromised as well. The airline is providing the impacted individuals with 24 months of free monitoring, identity theft protection, and proactive fraud assistance services, which include up to $1 million of expense reimbursement insurance.

A "widespread cybersecurity incident" at the Federal Emergency Management Agency allowed hackers to make off with employee data from both the disaster management office and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to a screenshot of an incident overview presentation obtained by Nextgov/FCW. The hack is also suspected to have later triggered the dismissal of two dozen Federal Emergency Management Agency technology employees announced late last month, according to internal meeting notes and a person familiar with the matter.

Unfortunately, WestJet confirmed that certain data was obtained from its systems. Since making that determination, WestJet conducted an analysis of that data to identify specific data elements and locate current contact information for certain United States residents who were impacted. As of September 15, 2025, WestJet completed that analysis and as a result is providing this notice. No credit card or debit card numbers, expiry dates and CVV numbers, and no guest user passwords were obtained.

Harrods has warned some customers that their personal data could have been taken in an IT systems breach - in the latest cyber-attack to hit a major UK firm.

If you're a current or former AT&T customer, you can now file a claim to be part of a $177 million class-action settlement over two major data breaches. But the deadline to file is quickly approaching. The breaches -- one dating back to 2019 and a second in 2024 -- exposed Social Security numbers, call and text records, names, addresses, dates of birth, and more. Also: AT&T customers will soon get their own AI receptionist to answer calls and block spam AT&T created two settlement funds: a $149 million pool for customers whose personal details were leaked in the first breach () and a $28 million pool for those whose call and text logs were exposed in the Snowflake hack ().