The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) achieved victory this week as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a heavily contested set of new data breach reporting requirements for ...

The court in Ohio Telecom read the Communications Act to grant the FCC sweeping authority to regulate "unjust" and "unreasonable" telecom carrier practices—for data privacy, data security, and beyond ...

When cybercriminals began the onslaught of ransomware attacks on the healthcare industry in early 2016, very few were prepared with how best to respond. Further, most of these attacks went unreported.

Around four months is the average time it takes for a company to report a data breach but certain industries take even longer, an analysis of ransomware attacks since 2018 finds. Companies often take ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. In August 2021, hackers offered for sale on the Dark Web data of what they said was ...

Update: Story updated with confirmation that this was another Salesforce data theft attack and the types of data stolen. Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach ...