data theft

Zappos, the shoe-and-apparel-selling division of Amazon, has been hit by cyber attackers and has had one of its servers compromised and information from it exfiltrated. The …

Computers and servers of the City College of San Francisco have been discovered to be infected with a myriad of computer viruses and information-stealing malware, and some of …

Last week’s news that hacks of a number of high-profile sites resulted in the compromise of personal and financial information of over 100 million Chinese Internet users …

The new year started with a number of data leaks made by Anonymous, and one leak by a hacker dubbed 0xOmar, who is allegedly part of the “largest Wahhabi hacker group of …

During the last days of 2011, Anonymous attacked Stratfor, a US-based research group that gathers intelligence and produces political, economic and military reports that help …

Following claims made by a Indian hacker group that they are in possession of source code for Symantec’s Norton Antivirus solution and that they plan to post in online, …

Ramnit – the file-infecting, financial-data-stealing worm that has been around since April 2010 – has been modified again and is now bent on stealing Facebook …

Chinese Internet users are getting a taste of what users in the Western world have already become accustomed to: changing their online passwords and fearing that their credit …

In a recent data breach incident, a Saudi hacker defaced a prominent sports news web site in Israel and linked its front page to a file exposing the details of many credit …

When Operation AntiSec was started by Anonymous and LulzSec back in June and the two groups called on “any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or …

The hacking collective Anonymous has downed the website and stolen client information belonging to Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting Inc.), a US-based research group that …

The propagation of some forms of crimeware surged in the half-year period ending in June, 2011 with data-stealing malware reaching and maintaining a new plateau of contagion, …