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UK Watchdog Fines Equifax $13.4M for Role in ‘One of Largest’ Cyber Breaches
Britain's financial watchdog said on Friday it had fined consumer credit rater Equifax Ltd. 11 million pounds ($13.4 million) for its role in "one of the largest" cyber-security breaches in history. ...
T-Mobile Claims No Continuing Risks to User Data From Recent Breach
T-Mobile US Inc said on Friday it was confident there were no continuing risks to user data from a breach disclosed earlier this month that affected more than 53 million current, former and ...
Customers Struck by T-Mobile Data Breach Now at 53 Million
T-Mobile US Inc said on Friday an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers accessed personal information of an additional 5.3 million customers, bringing the total number of ...
Warning: High-Tech Cyber Crime Will Keep Coming, ‘Terminator’-Style
Businesses worldwide are fighting sophisticated data scientists as they battle to protect their data-rich computers from cyber crime - and the costly attacks are not going to stop, a top expert at ...
VW Discloses Vendor Data Breach Affected 3.3 Million People in North America
Volkswagen AG's U.S. unit said a data breach at a vendor impacted more than 3.3 million customers and prospective buyers in North America. Nearly all those impacted were current or potential ...
Suspected Russian Hack of U.S. Government More About Espionage Than War
The suspected Russian hack of U.S. government agencies has led to heated rhetoric from lawmakers, with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin calling it "virtually a declaration of war" and U.S. Senator Marco ...
WhatsApp Urges Users to Download Update After Spotting Software Vulnerability
WhatsApp pressed users to update its messaging service, following a report that a vulnerability in the software allowed attackers to hack into people's phones using commercial Israeli spyware. The ...
2 Romanians Convicted in Malware Scheme That Infected 400,000 Computers
A federal jury on Thursday convicted two Bucharest, Romania, residents of 21 counts related to their scheme to infect victim computers with malware in order to steal credit card and other information ...