Data Security

The families of five terrorist attack victims filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Monday. The families, claiming that Facebook enabled Palestinian militants to carry out deadly attacks in Israel, are suing for more than $1 billion, calling into question the responsibility of technology companies when it comes to security. 

An attacker gained unauthorized access to a North Carolina State University account containing personally identifiable information.

Cloud service data aggregator Datadog was hit with a data breach late last week and has sent a letter to its customers warning them to change their login credentials.

A Secret Conversations feature in Facebook Messenger will offer end-to-end encryption based on the Signal Protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems.

Wendy's yesterday identified over 1,000 U.S. franchised locations that were affected by two variants of point-of-sale malware discovered earlier this year.

Iran's second largest mobile operator, Irancell, lost the personal information of 20 million customers in a data leak last week but denies being hacked.

A hacker reportedly accessed and publicly posted 50,000 records from the Baton Rouge Police Department to protest the police killing of local resident Alton Sterling.

A report from the U.K.'s National Crime Agency found that cybercrime has passed traditional crime in terms of impact.