Newsweek Magazine today announced the 2025 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces®, developed in partnership with Most Loved Workplace®, a division of Best Practice Institute (BPI). KnowBe4 was ranked #51 on this prestigious list, which highlights companies across the globe where employees genuinely love to work.
Now in its third year, the Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces® list is based on research from BPI’s Love of Workplace Index®, drawing on data from more than two million employees worldwide. Companies featured have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to building cultures of trust, respect, purpose, and employee connection, regardless of size, location, or industry.
The ranking is informed by employee perspectives in five key areas: how positive employees feel about their future at the company, career achievement, alignment of employer values with employee values, respect at all levels, and collaboration. Additional factors—such as diversity and belonging, leadership, and professional development—were also evaluated in relation to these core sentiment drivers.
To view the complete 2025 Global Most Loved Workplaces® list, visit https://rankings.newsweek.com/global-most-loved-workplaces-2025.
Methodology
The 2025 Global Most Loved Workplaces® list was developed in partnership with Best Practice Institute (BPI) using its proprietary Love of Workplace Index®, which includes direct employee survey responses and analysis across five core sentiment areas: employee satisfaction with future vision, career achievement, values alignment, respect, and collaboration. More than two million employees worldwide were surveyed across companies ranging in size from 10 to over 10,000 employees. Additional evaluation included written submissions and interviews with several hundred company executives, along with analysis of external public ratings. Newsweek’s global editorial team then conducted independent research to finalize the list—recognizing companies that place trust, belonging, and respect at the center of their business and workplace culture.
LexisNexis Pwned With The Personal Data Of 360,000 Out In The Wild
Posted in Commentary with tags Hacked on May 28, 2025 by itnerdIt was confirmed today that information belonging to more than 360,000 people was leaked in a data breach affecting an arm of the analytics giant LexisNexis.
The breach occurred on December 25th, but Lexis Nexis only discovered it on April 1st, 2025, and is just starting to notify people. The company says it “promptly launched an investigation” and “notified law enforcement” once it discovered the breach, adding that the types of information exposed “varied by affected individual.”
LexisNexis spokesperson Jennifer Richman told TechCrunch that an attacker obtained the data through the firm’s GitHub account. Neither LexisNexis nor GitHub immediately responded to The Verge’s request for comment.
LexisNexis is one of the biggest data brokers in the US, as it works to collect and sell vast amounts of personal information for fraud and risk assessment. Last year, LexisNexis was named in a report from The New York Times, which found that automakers had been sharing driving data with the firm that the firm then sold to insurance companies, leading to higher premiums for the drivers. Other than serving as a data broker, LexisNexis also offers access to a database of news articles, public records, and legal documents.
Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion at Pixel Privacy had this to say:
“Data breaches like this one underscore the need for users to remove their personal data from as many data brokers as possible. Data brokers are popular targets among the bad actors of the world, as they are literal treasure troves of personal and often financial information. This one is particularly troubling due to what was exposed, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers, as well as date of birth. This information is of value to hackers, as it can be used to open fraudulent accounts in the victim’s name, and it can also be used to gain access to current financial accounts.”
“There needs to be more legislation as to how data brokers collect, store, and share and sell users’ information. Personally, I am not a fan of LexisNexis, following the retaliation it conducted against the group of users that filed a class action lawsuit against the company last year, by freezing their credit and falsely reporting them as identity theft victims. This is uncalled for and is what should be considered criminal conduct. At the very least, it was childish.”
A data breach at a company like LexisNexis is not just bad news, it’s horrible news. The damage that this creates is potentially huge and underscores why personal data needs to be better controlled.
UPDATE: James McQuiggan, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4 added this comment:
“Third-party integrations can expose organizations to serious risk. When sensitive data flows through external platforms, oversight must match internal standards. Token misuse, shared credentials, and poor API security create vulnerabilities that attackers exploit without breaching your perimeter.
Security questionnaires and audits often miss insecure development practices in vendor tools. Many organizations trust integrations by default without visibility into how data is accessed or stored. Vendor risk is operational risk, and short-lived API tokens can be considered. Organizations and security teams should build incident response plans that account for data leaks caused by third parties, not just direct attacks. You can’t outsource responsibility without oversight.”
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