Breach

Personal details of 40K employees of Cox Communications, an ISP and cable provider, have shown up for sale on the dark web.

A data breach at Illinois State University (ISU) allowed an attacker to divert direct-deposit payroll payments.

Blackmailers are sending ransom letters to the wives of alleged users of the extramarital website Ashley Madison.

The growth of breaches has ushered in an economy of service providers. Jesse Staniforth reports.

The University of California, Berkeley, is in damage-control mode after discovering that cyberattackers breached a system containing the Social Security and bank account numbers of 80,000 students, faculty members and vendors.

The personal information of a number of former and current Snapchat employees was compromised in a phishing scheme.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has dramatically increased the number of citizens impacted by the May 2015 breach to 700,000 from the original 114,000 originally announced.