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US police departments increasingly rely on a controversial surveillance practice to demand large amounts of user data from tech companies, with the goal of tracking down…

The Indian government has finally resolved a long-standing cybersecurity issue that exposed a trove of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch…

Nearly 17 million LoanDepot customers had sensitive personal information stolen, including Social Security numbers, in a ransomware attack in January, the company confirmed. The giant loan…

UK-based water company Southern Water has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of up to 470,000 customers in a recent data breach. Southern Water, which…

A bug in the online forum for fertility tracking app Glow exposed the personal data of about 25 million users, according to a security researcher. The…

The startup that develops the phone app for casino giant WinStar has secured an exposed database that leaked customers’ personal information onto the open web. Oklahoma-based…

Mozilla is introducing a new subscription service today that will help people identify and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker sites on the…

Student rideshare startup HopSkipDrive has confirmed a data breach involving the personal data of more than 155,000 drivers. Los Angeles-based HopSkipDrive offers an Uber-style ride-sharing service…

Hyundai’s Indian subsidiary has fixed a bug that exposed the personal details of its customers in the South Asian market. TechCrunch reviewed a portion of the…

Hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than 14.6 million Mr. Cooper, the mortgage giant confirmed. In a filing with the Maine attorney general’s office,…