Breach

The University of Virginia (UVA) suffered a data breach that was initiated via a phishing scam that revealed the tax and banking data of some of the school's employees.

Respondents to a new survey from FICO unanimously agreed: Data breaches this year in other industries will damage financial institutions.

Since the Ashley Madison breach, some users of the infidelity service have received blackmail letters via the US postal system from extortionists threatening to blow their cover.

64 percent of more than 1,100 IT security executives believe that simply meeting cybersecurity compliance requirements, as opposed to striving for best practices, is "very" or "extremely" effective at preventing data breaches.

By connecting several dots together the Canadian government has tied what it believes are two Chinese soldiers to a hacking ring that included a third Chinese citizen currently living in Vancouver.

Classified information on a server belonging to Hillary Clinton may have been hacked by foreign adversaries, ex-Pentagon chief Robert Gates said.

Affinity Gaming has brought a suit against Trustwave, accusing the cybersecurity company of failing to adequately investigate and remedy a data breach.