Authorities in the UK have arrested a 21-year-old man who they believe is responsible for hacking the data of over 6 million children who used VTech electronics. VTech makes tablets, computers and games aimed at younger audiences.
The company that handles credit checks for T-Mobile was hacked At least 15 million T-Mobile customers' personal data was stolen by hackers. The data was stolen when hackers accessed customers' personal information through the company that T-Mobile uses to process credit checks when signing up new customers for their service.
After reports of two possible suicides and extortion schemes resulting from the Ashley Madison data leak, the parent company for the affair website is raising the reward for anyone who helps catch the hackers responsible for releasing the personal information of millions of users.
Two Ashley Madison customers in Canada allegedly took their own lives after their data was hacked as part of the massive data leak on the affair website.
Almost 20 gigabytes of data was released by hackers Just a few days after a massive leak of data from the affair website Ashley Madison, even more data has been leaked out, Motherboard reports.
Hackers threatened to expose private data User data stolen from the affair website Ashley Madison and released to the Internet is being called legitimate by security experts on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reports.
On average, it took two to four months to drain each victim bank, starting from the first day of malware infection to cash withdrawal, according to cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab.
President Obama addressed major Silicon Valley players at Stanford University on Friday afternoon, as part of an official White House summit on cybersecurity and cooperation between the technology industry and the government.
Anthem Inc., the nation's second-largest health insurer, has said that hackers broke into their database and stole personal information of about 80 million of its customers and employees.
This week, President Obama called for new laws protecting Americans from the kind of massive data breaches that defined the consumer cybersecurity narrative in 2014, along with a proposal to limit technology companies' use of student data.
Regin, the most advanced malware ever found, has been conducting worldwide cyberspying since 2008. The Regin malware -- the most sophisticated espionage software ever discovered by researchers -- is thought to be the work of U.
Cybersecurity is an issue that's not going away, and according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, it's likely to only become more critical in the future. Surveying a number of Internet experts, Pew found a consensus that the next decade will be filled with more cyber attacks, with bigger consequences.
JP Morgan Chase data breach blamed on hack of employee password An employee's password has been identified as the source of the largest JP Morgan Chase and Co.
Credit card, debit card numbers may have been stolen P. F. Chang's is continuing to investigate a data breach that affected customers in 33 of its restaurants in the U.
Could be the biggest data breach in history. Ebay Inc announced that hackers gained access to its network about three months ago and obtained data from 145 million customers in what could be the largest data breach in history.
The annual most common (i.e., worst) passwords list has been released, and there's good news and bad: the most egregiously obvious password has been downgraded from the number one slot, but its replacement isn't that much better.
You may have been the target of cybercrime if you shopped at brick-and-mortar Target stores during the Christmas shopping season. But you might also be in danger if you shopped in six other yet-unnamed retailers, according to a recent report.
