Data Breach Roundup (August 21 - 27, 2026)
Once again, multiple hospitals have been hit this week, as well as apparel companies, airports, and more.
Nate is a member of Privacy Guides' video and news team. He has been advocating for privacy on his own website The New Oil since 2018, and is the former host of Surveillance Report, a popular cybersecurity podcast he published with Techlore.
Once again, multiple hospitals have been hit this week, as well as apparel companies, airports, and more.
Meta's end-to-end encrypted messenger remains popular around the world, so it's still a win that they offer additional protections to users.
We compared the top password managers (and the ones not quite there yet) to find out how they stack up.
The CEVA Logistics breach continues to impact companies, a people search site left their databases exposed, and a couple small updates on the scope of previously-disclosed breaches.
A spike in attacks on shipping and logistics companies is likely to result in a lot of exposed data.
If you drive in America today, you've almost certainly been scanned by a Flock camera, maybe even hundreds of times. Your location, along with a timestamp and photo, all stored in a cloud database accessible to police departments across the country.
Suisun City's public safety systems - including 911 - were shut down Friday morning.
This is the story of Bullrun, the National Security Agency's probably-ongoing effort to have eyes into every single digital service on the planet, and how you can you defend yourself against it.
This week featured only two data breaches from the UK and from Switzerland. Both affected federal governments, however.
New research shows the shocking extent of North Korea's state sponsored hacking team.
People's AI chats have once more been exposed online, multiple updates to previously reported data breaches, and more.
After last week's lack of news, the breaches are back with a vengeance.
This week was slow with only one breach (that we know of).