data theft

Hackers – more than likely Chinese – have stolen designs for two dozen U.S. weapons systems during a series of raids, a previously undisclosed section of a report …

U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees have begun receiving notifications about a vulnerability that has inadvertently made their personal information potentially …

Edwin Vargas, a detective with the New York City Police Department, has been arrested on Tuesday for computer hacking crimes. According to the complaint unsealed in Manhattan …

Hidden vulnerabilities lie in everyday activities that can expose personal information and lead to data breach, including buying gas with a credit card or wearing a pacemaker. …

Four LulzSec members have been sentenced today at Southwark Crown Court for taking part in the 2011 attacks against a series of high-profile websites and publishing user …

Mere days after Bloomberg News admitted that its journalists could access some client information via the company’s financial terminals, it has been revealed that the …

Internet registrar Name.com has suffered a breach and has been informing users about it via email, requesting them to change their passwords. “Name.com recently …

A hacker that goes by the name of “Guccifer” – the same one who has allegedly compromised email accounts belonging to the Bush family and some of their close …

The email server of FOX21 News has been hacked over the weekend and the information it contained held ransom. The attackers were asking for $5,000 to decrypt the information …

It seems ages ago that companies were first warned about the danger of confidential information being found in trash bags in front of the office, yet despite the use of …

LivingSocial, the company behind the eponymous deal-of-the-day website, has confirmed that its computer systems have been breached by attackers and that user information such …

Protecting brand reputation and observing security best practices should be organisation’s primary motivators for data protection, while meeting compliance requirements …