Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, the UnitedHealth Group data breach tops a new level of serious with an increased number of affected users.

The Chicago Department of Public Health is warning about a potential leak of personal medical information. The agency announced sensitive information may have been inadvertently disclosed in public health and safety stats.

While the number of data breaches reported last year wasn't a whole lot different than the year before, the number of people potentially affected by them skyrocketed. According to the 19th annual data breach report issued by the Identity Theft Resource Center,

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek left critical user data and internal secrets unprotected, raising alarms over security risks in the AI industry.

In 2024, the landscape of data breaches remained largely unchanged in terms of the number of incidents, with 3,158 compromises reported, mirroring the prev