Breach

The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign gave its national data director the boot after he took advantage of a software glitch in a voter database managed by a third party to gain unauthorized access to proprietary modeling data from Hillary Clinton's campaign.

A Chinese teenager hacked into the website of a Chinese airline, stole the information of hundreds of passengers and then used it to defraud them into paying additional fees for their flights, netting a cool $150,000 for his efforts.

Protected Health information (PHI) is clearly at risk and organizations are simply not doing enough to protect it, a first-ever Verizon PHI study found.

A Russian accused of hacking American businesses will face trial after a judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawyer's challenge over a technicality.

Encryption and the openness of the internet took center stage at Tuesday's Republican debate, with presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina calling for Silicon Valley to help government solve its "tech problem" and circumvent encryption.

Industry sources are baffled by the lack of security protocol at MacKeeper after a security researcher discovered 13 million account records that were left exposed on a database server.

Two security industry pros said its time for organizations to make sure their workers understand the importance of cyber security and actively take part in defending their company.

No one wants to plan for a breach, but its what you ought to do if you want to minimise the costs, data losses and reputational damage when the inevitable happens, hence the avid pre-planning at last week's SC roundtable.