Latest Data Breach 2024 News. In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from national public data. Fortune 500 company prudential financial detected a breach on february 5, 2024, a day after suspected cybercriminals accessed company and employee data.
From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of medical data covering most people in the united states. Ransomware and the meteoric rise of extortion techniques accounted for a third (32%) of all.