Majestic Care is a nursing home company that has more than 20 locations throughout Indiana. The organization serves elderly patients all over the state and manages a great deal of medical and financial information as a result. That's why it's so upsetting to hear that one of the company's 20 locations was hit by a cyber attack that resulted in the loss of data. If you or one of your loved ones uses the Middletown location, you may have lost important data and could be at risk.

NCB Management Services is a debt-buying company that acquires debt from other businesses and attempts to collect that debt. The organization works with many major companies, such as Bank of America, and it suffered from a serious data breach recently. Since NCB works with so many major companies, customers of those companies can be put at risk of data loss when their data is lost.

TMX Finance is a large financial company that specializes in short-term loans for in-need individuals. The company has been in operation since 1998 and runs businesses like InstaLoan, TitleMax, and TitleBucks. The organization maintains more than 900 locations in 14 separate states and employs more than 2,000 individuals overall. This large finance company recently suffered from a cyber attack that exposed some of its customers in a serious way.

Ferrari is a well-known luxury car manufacturer based out of Italy. The company creates some of the most beloved sports cars and is known for producing vehicles that stand out for their beauty and performance. The company began in 1947 and had been producing head-turning vehicles ever since. Ferrari is well-known for delivering an excellent customer experience, but the automaker recently suffered from a data breach that may have exposed some of its customers.

Major companies and services were hit by data breaches this week. Some of the breaches were caused by internal mistakes, others were the result of coordinated gang attacks, and some were issues with outside services. All the different attack types make it clear that no matter how you run your business, there are data risks you must look out for, and as a consumer, you have to be careful to monitor your credit and finances closely.

Postal Prescription Services is an Oregon-based mail-order medication business that sends medication to thousands of customers. It began associating with Kroger recently, and around the time of that merger, it suffered from a data leak. The grocery store chain Kroger is spread out over more than 2,800 separate locations, has over 465,000 employees, and serves millions of customers each year. As a result, many customers had some of their data exposed due to a mistake that was made.

Banks are entrusted with a great deal of personal information, money, and more by their customers. When a bank isn't able to secure those things, it's a major issue. This is an issue that the Tri-Counties Bank in Chico faced earlier this year. It wasn't money that the bank failed to protect, but customer information. The bank suffered from a serious cyber attack and lost confidential information in the process.

Proctor and Gamble is a massive production company that produces home goods under many different brands and sells them around the world. Major brands like Febreze, Olay, Pantene, Pampers, Gillette, Crest, Dawn, and so many others belong to the organization. Proctor and Gamble recently admitted that it also suffered from data losses linked to attacks on the GoAnywhere file transfer service.

ChatGPT is OpenAi's chatbot designed to simulate conversations with other people. The tool utilizes a massive language model to produce realistic and believable responses for a conversation. OpenAI offers a subscription service known as ChatGPT Plus that offers preferential access to the powerful AI system for subscribers. Some of these subscribers were exposed in the first-ever ChatGPT data breach that occurred in March this year.

The amount of content reaching the Internet every day is staggering. Digital data is created at around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. Still confused? Daily, one billion Gigabytes of data are created for us to consume. No matter how you look at it, that’s a lot of data up for grabs. In its basic form, “online piracy is the illegal copying or distribution of copyrighted material” via the Internet. Online and digital piracy continues to evolve as boundaries are set.