Breach

The Ohio State University (OSU) has notified hundreds of thousands of students and faculty members that their personal information was compromised by hackers who broke into a campus server.

Thefts of information belonging to customers of two major American chains may be traceable back to a breach at an email marketing services firm.

Could a cargo ship's thwarted piracy reveal more than bullet holes and bloodstains? A theoretical view of why compromised shipping cargo information could make pirates and hijackers rich.

A massive spam campaign that has rapidly spread on Twitter has been linked to a recent security breach of online media company Gawker Media.

Hackers infiltrated the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison computer systems and accessed the personal information of tens of thousands of individuals affiliated with the college.

More than 20 years worth of personal and investigative Sheriff's Department records from Mesa County, Colo. were inadvertently posted online, where they remained for several months.

Was the delay of the Stuxnet worm cleanup the true motive behind the assassination of Iranian cyberwarfare and nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari? Was Wikileaks content responsible for the timing of the attack? Analysis follows.

Medical records could become compromised during transmission, on the patient's computer, or at any number of multiple points of storage.