data theft

First identified as an industry issue a decade ago, data breaches are now part of the consumer vocabulary. Data breaches have evolved from credit card fraud with financial …

Some 24,000 user accounts – but luckily no user financial information – were compromised in mass login attempts to the Club Nintendo website. The global website is …

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris released the first report detailing the 131 data breaches reported to her office in 2012, showing that 2.5 million Californians had personal …

Ubisoft has begun notifying account holders of a breach that resulted in their email addresses, usernames and (encrypted) passwords being compromised. “We recently …

A number of top government officials have been called to testify at a congressional hearing before U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the topic of NSA …

Many U.S. small businesses are taking a passive approach when it comes to protecting their data leaving themselves vulnerable to data loss and possible financial and …

The hacker that goes by the online moniker “Guccifer” continues his crusade agains U.S. current and former government officials, and his latest victim is Neile …

A new and widespread phishing campaign has been discovered targeting businesses and government institutions across Asia, Trend Micro reports. Telecoms, oil and gas companies, …

Popular online source code repository Sourceforge has once again been misused by malware peddlers to host malicious files. A considerable number of malware downloads files …

Conflicting claims were heard at Tuesday’s hearing of the House Veterans’ Affairs oversight and investigations subcommittee, leaving open the question on whether …

Several computers in the University of Illinois Computer Science Department have apparently been compromised to host malware-serving websites, security researcher Conrad …

The server hosting the official website of Drupal, the popular content management platform, has been compromised and sensitive user data was accessed by the attackers, the …