Breach

Newly unsealed court documents have revealed the extensive case U.S. prosecutors built against Chris Correa, the former St. Louis Cardinals executive who last year pleaded guilty to hacking into the Houston Astros' databases.

The firm has previously gotten in trouble for the mishandling of customer data.

About 218,000 unencrypted private messages from the AlphaBay dark web marketplace have been accessed and released to the public, according to several posts on Reddit.

A ransomware attack involving subcontractors of Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware compromised customer data.

In mid-December a laptop belonging to a doctor working at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group was stolen.

A number of comments by French officials have highlighted fears that foreign interference may marr April and May's presidential elections.

The leak of the final episode of BBC's Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, was leaked online ahead of its final episode by hackers, says Russian broadcaster.

Cellebrite, which rose to fame in 2016 when the FBI allegedly approached it to crack open the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, has suffered a 900GB data breach.