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Hackers have stolen the personal information of almost 1,000 North Korean defectors, the South Korean government revealed today.
Each year a few hackers do something new that begs further examination. The general public and Hollywood paints most hackers as these uber-smart people who can take control of entire city’s infrastructure and crack any password in seconds.
A hacker has stolen the personal details of over 500,000 San Diego Unified School District staff and students; the district revealed in a breach notice posted on its website on Friday, before the Christmas holiday.
The personal data of more than half a million staff and students of San Diego high schools from the past decade is now likely in the hands of hackers, it has emerged.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) today unsealed indictments against a pair of Chinese agents charged with hacking US computer systems from a period spanning 2006 – 2018. Among those successfully targeted was the US Navy.
US chain Caribou Coffee announced a payment card data breach on Thursday, listing 265 outlets across 11 states that had been affected.
Another day, another data breach. This time it's the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Twitter has been hit with a minor data breach incident that the social networking site believes linked to a suspected state-sponsored attack.
A House Oversight Committee report out Monday has concluded that Equifax’s security practices and policies were sub-par and its systems were old and out-of-date, and bothering with basic security measures — like patching vulnerable systems — could’ve prevented its massive data breach last year.
Twelve US states are suing an electronic healthcare record provider who lost 3.9 million personal records in 2015.
Computer users are being reminded once again to take care over the browser extensions they install after security experts discovered a hacking campaign that has been targeting academic institutions since at least May 2018.
As the founder and director of a nonprofit animal shelter on the East Coast, Alana has spent most of the past decade caring for pets that might otherwise be euthanized. Her work also resonates with people online—the Facebook page for the shelter has more than 1.3 million followers.
It’s not a site that I use often, but I woke up this morning to discover that overnight I had received two emails from Quora.
Hours after announcing a data breach on Friday, two Oregon men sued international hotel chain Marriott for exposing their data. Their lawsuit was followed hours later by another one filed in the state of Maryland.
Dunkin' Donuts has alerted DD Perks account holders to a security incident after learning an unauthorized party accessed some of their usernames and passwords, NBC News reports.
Starwood Hotels has confirmed its hotel guest database of about 500 million customers has been stolen in a data breach.
Computer manufacturer Dell has revealed that earlier this month it discovered that hackers had breached its security and were attempting to access customer details - including names, email addresses, and hashed passwords.
The Altus Baytown Hospital (ABH) has revealed a ransomware outbreak which may have led to the leak of patient data.
HealthEquity, an IRS non-bank health savings trustee who is handling more than 3.4 million health savings accounts, was breached when an intruder accessed the email accounts of two HealthEquity team members, exposing protected health information (PHI)/personally identifiable information (PII) of 20,906 subscribers.
The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts. Criminals sent posts from both Google’s G Suite account and Target’s official Twitter account.
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