Agence France-Presse, one of the world’s largest news organizations, has notified French regulators of a potential data breach following a cyberattack last week. The AFP, which has an editorial presence in 260 cities across 150 countries, said in a brief statement on Saturday that it detected an “attack on its systems” that affected part of […]
AT&T notifies regulators after customer data breach
AT&T has begun notifying U.S. state authorities and regulators of a security incident after confirming that millions of customer records posted online last month were authentic. In a legally required filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office, the U.S. telco giant said it sent out letters notifying more than 51 million people that their personal information […]
US military notifies 20,000 of data breach after cloud email leak
The U.S. Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information was exposed in an email data spill last year. According to the breach notification letter sent out to affected individuals on February 1, the Defense Intelligence Agency — the DOD’s military intelligence agency — said, “numerous email messages were […]