On Friday, June 20, US District Judge Ada Brown granted preliminary approval to the terms of a proposed settlement from AT&T that would resolve two lawsuits related to the data breaches. The current settlement would see AT&T pay $177 million to customers adversely affected by at least one of the two data breaches.

Viral dating advice app Tea experienced a data breach on Friday. It's been at the top of the US Apple App Store this week.

Tea, a dating safety app which allows women to anonymously give men red or green "flags," says it had more than 70,000 photos stolen in a data breach.

A vulnerability in the Tea app has been discovered that allowed users to download the personal information of everyone on the app.

Opinion: Blank Rome attorneys addresses the key contractual and legal issues that arise in the emerging area of business-to-business data breach litigation.

Hackers gained access to personal data on the majority of the 1.4 million customers of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, the company confirmed over the weekend.

If you receive notice of a data breach by mail, follow the advice in the letter and take it seriously. You should be on the lookout for phishing attacks and regularly check your Experian, TransUnion and Equifax credit reports for unauthorized accounts opened in your name.