Breach

State Farm is alerting customers of a data security incident involving a third party vendor's misuse of customer information.

More government personnel are needed to pursue and prosecute cyberthieves, ESET said.

Following several social media site breaches, Netflix said users whose passwords may have been compromised must change their login credentials.

The IRS has pumped up its web security by adding multifactor authentication to thwart cyberthieves eager for the trove of taxpayer information held in its databases.

One in five medium to-large businesses in the UK don't have a plan of action in place in case of a ransomware attack. Almost half (48 percent) of British businesses are failing to back up their company data at least once a day.

Human resources vendor Empathia announced a potential data breach affecting its employee assistance program.

A website belonging to the National Network of Abortion Funds was hacked around April 7.

After every big data breach comes the Ghostbusters moment: Who you gonna call?