Security
Our analysis of all 8,077 HHS breach reports since 2009: 622 large healthcare data breaches in 2026 so far, the biggest ones, causes, vendors, costs, HIPAA fines and healthcare GDPR fines in Europe.
Miklos Zoltan -
News
Humble Bundle’s relaunched website signs you in with a password alone. Two-factor login is gone, so a stolen password now opens your whole library of game keys.
Miklos Zoltan -
News
A verified YouTube channel with 2.23 million subscribers promoted a fake crypto tool whose install step gives attackers hidden remote control of Windows PCs.
Laura Bede -
News
Microsoft Defender’s default settings sent 217 of a developer’s unreleased builds to Microsoft, and the setting he switched off came back on. Here’s how to check your PC.
Miklos Zoltan -
Security
Where LockBit stands in November 2026, how it works, a dated timeline, and which of seven attacks it claimed in 2023–24 were ever confirmed.
Miklos Zoltan -
Security
Our analysis of all 8,077 HHS breach reports since 2009: 622 large healthcare data breaches in 2026 so far, the biggest ones, causes, vendors, costs, HIPAA fines and healthcare GDPR fines in Europe.
Miklos Zoltan -
Privacy
Our analysis of California’s 2026 data broker registry: 625 brokers, who collects location and immigration data, who sells to police, the government and AI developers, and what happens to deletion requests.
Miklos Zoltan -
Security
The Binance hack, $11.4 billion in US crypto fraud losses, pig butchering, AI and wrench attacks: sourced 2025 and 2026 crypto scam statistics, the biggest thefts, and our state-by-state analysis of FBI data.
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Daily Quotes
"Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet."
PrivacyAffairs is an independent publication about online privacy and security. We report news, explain how things work, review VPNs and publish our own research.
The research is what we’re known for. The Dark Web Price Index has been cited by PBS NewsHour, Business Insider and The Conversation. Our GDPR fines tracker lists more than 3,000 fines, each checked against the regulator’s own decision.
We’re openly on the side of privacy and against censorship. That decides what we cover. It never changes a fact, a price or a score.
We work from primary sources, and a claim we can’t verify stays out. We use AI tools for research, drafting and translation, and a named person reviews every page and answers for it. When we get something wrong, we correct it and say so on the page.
We earn affiliate commissions on some of the services we write about. No company can pay for a better score, and none sees a review before it’s published.
PrivacyAffairs started in 2018 as VPNTeacher.com. In 2019 the scope widened and the site took its current name. It was founded by Miklos Zoltan and is run by Zisk Web SRL in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.