Data Security

John Brennan, former director of the CIA, told the House Intelligence Committee he suspected that associates in Donald Trump's campaign staff worked with Russian authorities in influencing the presidential election.

In a settlement with the attorneys general of 47 states and the District of Columbia, retailer Target will fork over $18.5M as penalty for a breach which exposed the contact information of more than 60 million customers

A Ukrainian national was sentenced in a Newark, N.J. court to two-and-a-half years in prison for his role in a global insider trading scheme believed to have netted his gang more than $100 million.

A data breach at the Florida's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) has put the personal information of thousands of people at risk.

China seriously crippled U.S. Intelligence operations by systematically killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources.

WikiLeaks on Friday published materials related to a malware implant called Athena, which enables remote beacon and loader capabilities on targeted computers running on Microsoft Windows versions XP through 10.

Although Target agreed to compensate consumers affected in its 2013 data breach from a pool of $10 million, a lone consumer is halting payouts.

The number of those affected by a breach into an Equifax subsidiary remains unclear, but what is known is that intruders were able to access customers' W-2 tax data, according to a report from security investigator Brian Krebs.