Hackers had access to names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and more for 143 million Equifax customers.

Unbeknown to the app developers, an advertising software development kit contained code for stealing data from their products' users.

A security researcher found a backup file containing personal data for all Chicago voters exposed on an unsecured cloud-storage server.

A company is going around buying abandoned Chrome extensions from their original developers and converting these add-ons into adware.

Last week, the President of the United States tweeted out an idiotic meme of himself, from his WWE days, pummeling another combatant after clotheslining him. The meme included a CNN logo pasted over the combatant’s head, making it appear as though Trump was pummeling the CNN logo.

Chinese authorities say they have uncovered a massive underground operation run by Apple employees selling computer and phone users’ personal data. Twenty-two people have been detained on suspicion of infringing individuals’ privacy and illegally obtaining their digital personal information, according to a statement Wednesday from local police in southern Zhejiang …

A federal grand jury sitting in the Northern District of Georgia indicted an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee today for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John A. Horn for the Northern District of Georgia.

As thousands of Verizon Wireless customers complain about skyrocketing bills for data usage, some small businesses have also been clobbered. And when businesses get hit, the bills are sometimes staggering. In Greater Cleveland, David Smith of Horizon Education Centers is staring at a Verizon bill for data usage for $20,291.94. That's for one month. For data overages. The entire bill was for more than $23,000.

A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s

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Although the accounts were stolen during a previously disclosed breach, only now is the extent coming to light.

Hackers Stole Customers' Credit and Debit Card Information from 1,025 Wendy's Locations

Doug Costello found himself embroiled in a complicated legal dispute for next 6 ½ years.

Chip cards' greatest attribute—increased security for in-person transactions—is having an unwelcome knock-on effect.

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington.

When Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion two years ago, some had privacy concerns. It appears those fears may have a bit more credence.

Dwolla fined by CFPB over phishing vulnerability