Equifax Says Breach Affects 143 Million Americans

Equifax, one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States, disclosed Thursday afternoon it’s looking into a data breach that may have affected upwards to 143 million Americans. The company said in a statement on its site that cybercriminals managed to exploit an...

Equifax Hack Exposes Personal Info of 143 Million US Consumers

It's ironic—the company that offers credit monitoring and ID theft protection solutions has itself been compromised, exposing personal information of as many as 143 million Americans—that's almost half the country. Equifax, one of the three largest credit reporting firm in the United States,...

Insecure NAS Device Exposes 350 Ameriprise Investment Accounts

A trove of data belonging to Ameriprise Financial was found earlier this month that included Social Security numbers, decryption keys and confidential internal company documents. The breach is related to the use of a network attacked storage device that insecurely backed up data from an internal...

Cancer Clinic Warns 2.2 Million Of Records Breach

Florida-based cancer treatment center 21st Century Oncology Holdings is warning 2.2 million patients that health data and Social Security numbers were stolen from its computer network. The breach, which was revealed on March 4, occurred last November and included the theft of patient names, Socia...

Department of Education Lambasted Over Database Vulnerabilities

Like the Office of Personnel Management before it, the Department of Education has failed to heed repeated warnings that its systems contain multiple weaknesses. In a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing held this week, Congressman and committee chair Jason Chaffetz R-Utah...

WikiLeaks obtains CIA Director's Hacked Emails and Plans to Publish them Shortly

Breaking.... WikiLeaks, The Anti-secrecy and transparency organization, claims to have obtained the contents of CIA Director John Brennan's personal AOL email account. Also, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has promised to publish them soon on their website. Earlier this week, Brennan's...

High school Student Hacked Into CIA Director's Personal Email Account

A self-described teenage hacker has claimed to have hacked into personal AOL email account of Central Intelligence Agency CIA Director John Brennan and swiped sensitive top-secret data. It's Really a major embarrassment for Brennan as well as the CIA. The hacker, who describes himself as an...

Experian Breach: 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Data Hacked

If you applied for financing from T-Mobile anytime between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015, you have been HACKED! – even if you never had T-Mobile service. T-Mobile’s credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing the highly personal information of more than 15...

NY Health Provider Excellus Discloses Data Breach Dating to 2013

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, a large health care provider in New York state, says it was hit by an attack that began in 2013 and wasn’t discovered until last month, resulting in the compromise of members’ personal information, including Social Security numbers, addresses, financial and account...

OPM Hack Expands to Include Data of 21.5M People

UPDATE–The ever-expanding data breach at the Office of Personnel Management has now spread to include the Social Security numbers and other personal data of a total of 21.5 million people, and the toll also now includes the agency’s director, Katherine Archuleta, who resigned Friday morning...

Banking Malware Vawtrak Seen Using Tor2Web

Developers behind the banking Trojan Vawtrak have begun obscuring some of their servers with Tor2Web, a move that’s added another degree of difficulty when it comes to uncovering their activity. To this point the malware’s techniques – its evolution beyond banking websites, ability to break...

'The Pirate Bay' Co-Founder Found Guilty in Denmark's Largest Hacking Case

The co-founder of The Pirate Bay torrent site Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Anakata and his 21-year-old Danish co-defendant have been found guilty by a Danish court of hacking into systems operated by American IT giant CSC and illegally downloading files. It was the biggest hacking case ever conducted ...

AT&T Hit By Insider Breach

AT&T is warning consumers about a data breach involving an insider who illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified number of users. The compromised data includes Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers. In a letter sent to the Vermont attorney general, AT&T official...

Iowa State Hacked--To Mine Bitcoins

It’s an odd week these days when there isn’t a data breach at some university or college. These institutions are prime targets for attackers for several reasons, not the least of which are their open network environments and databases bulging with personal information. But now attackers are looki...

Data Breaches Show Difficulty of Defenders' Task

When attackers broke into the network of the University of Maryland last month, the university’s wasn’t sure how to react. The organization had never had a major security incident before, and this one qualified as major: 310,000 Social Security numbers and other information was gone. And then thr...

University Maryland Breach Exposes SocialSecurity numbers

Attackers breached a University of Maryland database containing more than 300,000 student, faculty, staff, and other affiliated records on Tuesday, according to an apology issued by the university’s president, Wallace D. Loh. While it is not clear exactly how many individuals are affected by the...

Hacker sold personal data of 4 million US citizens online; risk of potential Identity Theft

An illegal service that sells personal data of US citizens online, which can then be used for identity theft hacked into the networks of three major data brokers and Hacker stole their databases. Cyber attack has given them access to Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and other personal...

Hacker sold personal data of 4 million US citizens online; risk of potential Identity Theft

An illegal service that sells personal data of US citizens online, which can then be used for identity theft hacked into the networks of three major data brokers and Hacker stole their databases. Cyber attack has given them access to Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and other personal...

IRS Exposes Social Security Numbers Online

The Social Security Numbers of tens of thousands of Americans ended up in a searchable public database that provides access to the tax filing applications of Section 527 political organizations on the Internal Revenue Service’s website. According to OpenSecrets.org, 527s are “…tax-exempt groups...

July 2013 Adobe Security Bulletins, Patches Released

Adobe today released its monthly round of security updates with patches available for Flash Player, Shockwave and ColdFusion. None of the vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild, according to Adobe. The flaws in Flash Player and Shockwave could allow hackers to remotely install and run...