LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has taken legal action against companies it says operate millions of fake accounts on the professional networking site for the purpose of large-scale data scraping. The court ...

According to a report by Bloomberg, Reddit has also sued three other companies for scraping data from its website without ...

This story was updated with new information on the number of customers impacted. Canadian airline WestJet is informing customers that the cyberattack disclosed in June compromised the personal ...

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Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have ...

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Threat actors aligned with the Clop ransomware group are claiming to have stolen sensitive data from Oracle Corp.’s E-Business Suite and, though Oracle has yet to confirm a breach, customers are ...

If you've ever given Discord your ID for age verification or otherwise, be worried. The super-popular chat service suffered a major data breach (via a third-party supplier) in early October 2025 and ...

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