News & Reviews:   data breach

Substack, a service focused on email newsletters, has now confirmed that its service experienced a user data leak to a third party in October 2025. Substack said that among the data affected were email addresses and phone numbers.

Nike, a leading global sports equipment and apparel brand, was recently reported to be investigating allegations that its data was hacked by the recently known ransomware hacking group World Leaks. So, what should you know about it?

Have you received any sudden password reset notifications from Instagram lately? If you have, just know that it's safe to ignore because it's an error of some sort. Some of you might wonder whether it was a phishing attempt, but Instagram claimed that it wasn't. Regardless, here are some details you should be aware of.

Two days ago, hackers claimed to have stolen four million pieces of data belonging to U Mobile customers. It was allegedly sold through the BreachForums black market and the ransom price was $5000. However, it seems that the claim was dated.

Based on today's report by The Star, TM (Telekom Malaysia) has issued a warning about a data breach for selected Unifi users.

TM might have been unlucky as the company faces a data breach before the year ends. However, it has released a statement to clarify the incident and inform its customers that the company has taken the necessary measures to minimise the potential impact.

In just the wee hours of this morning, a tweet was sent out alerting our Minister of Communications and Multimedia of Malaysia, Fahmi Fadzil about another data breach. This time, 13 million Malaysian user data from Astro, Maybank and SPR may have been compromised in the black market.

Meta has today issued a warning to as many as one million Facebook users who may have had their login information stolen. Meta, Facebook’s parent company said that the data has been compromised by over 400 malicious Android and iOS apps designed to steal personal Facebook logins.

Samsung has revealed that the personal data of its customers had been compromised after the company suffered a data breach recently. In a blog post on Friday (2 September 2022), the South Korean tech giant elaborated that the data was compromised on 4 August 2022 following an apparent security incident in the preceding weeks.

Cybersecurity has been a hot topic in our country recently following a series of high-profile data leaks that have unfortunately affected Malaysians. If you’re in the dark about what to do to protect yourself in the digital world, then the following advice from global cybersecurity and digital privacy company Kaspersky could do you a world of good. 

Read on to learn of the measures that you can take to safeguard yourself from the adverse repercussions of a cybersecurity breach.