Automated investment platform Betterment experienced a data breach last month that compromised 1.4 million accounts.
In January, hackers gained access to the company’s systems and obtained personal information associated with the accounts. The stolen information includes names, contact information, physical addresses, device information, employers’ locations, and job titles. While the attackers had system access, they sent fake company promotion emails to customers.
Thankfully, investigations into the incident found that no customer account login information was compromised, and accounts remain secure.
(–Source: Bleeping Computer
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In October 2025, Substack’s systems experienced unauthorized access that compromised user data.
While highly sensitive data such as financial information and passwords was unaffected by this incident, email addresses, phone numbers, and other unspecified “internal metadata” was accessed by the unauthorized third party.
The issue that allowed for the unauthorized access has now been fixed, and the incident is being investigated. There is currently no indication of how many users have been affected.
(–Source: TechCrunch on MSN
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Photo sharing platform Flickr has disclosed news of a data breach in an email to its users.
The incident stemmed from “a vulnerability in a system operated by one of [Flickr’s] email service providers” and may have allowed unauthorized access to the platform’s user information. Compromised information may include name, contact information, Flickr activity and username, IP address, general location, and, potentially, passwords and payment information “depending on your account.”
Flickr acted quickly and was able to disable the affected system, remove links to the vulnerable endpoint, and launch an investigation within just a few hours of the issue being identified. Investigation is currently ongoing.
(–Source: Forbes
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The recent data breach on Conduent has affected Volvo customers and employees, exposing the data of around 17,000 individuals. This notification of Volvo’s systems being involved came over 6 months after Conduent initially discovered the infiltration of its network.
Volvo has not yet disclosed what type of information was compromised, but data stolen from Conduent includes names, SSNs, medical and health information, indicating that the nature of Volvo’s stolen data may be similar.
(–Source: TechRadar on Yahoo! News
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Despite hackers stealing 70,000 government ID information from Discord users in October of 2025, Discord has now announced that all users will be required to verify their age via video selfie or government ID uploads in order to access adult content. Those who do not verify their age by these methods, will have their accounts defaulted to “teen-appropriate” settings. The platform is, unsurprisingly, facing backlash from its users about this decision.
Many Discord users are concerned about the privacy of their data since this change is being rolled out in early March, just months after age verification data was already stolen from the platform.
(–Source: Ars Technica
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