T-Mobile revealed last month that it had been the victim of a data breach in November which affected and exposed the personal information of 37 million accounts. This announcement comes just two years after a larger breach in which T-Mobile ended up having to pay $350 million after a class action lawsuit was brought against them.

The healthcare industry has seen ransomware attacks double from 2016 to 2021, according to a study published in the December 2022 issue of JAMA Health Forum. The study looked at 374 ransomware attacks, which exposed "the personal health information of nearly 42 million patients.

Three competing consumer privacy bills are making their way through the Massachusetts State House, the Massachusetts Data Privacy Protection Act (MDPPA), the Massachusetts Information Privacy and Security Act (MISPA), and the Internet Bill of Rights, which were introduced earlier last month.