Data Security

According to a letter detailing the event written to the Attorney General, the operation that targeted one of the retailer's Florida stores lasted from August 14 to October 5.

A Wednesday MacRumors Forums breach that affected hundreds of thousands is said to be related to a zero-day vulnerability in proprietary internet message board software vBulletin, which was also attacked last week.

According to an FBI memo obtained by Reuters, hackers exploited vulnerable Adobe software to infiltrate organizations' networks.

Thousands of city workers in Milwaukee, as well as their spouses and domestic partners, had personal information compromised after a flash drive that contained the data was stolen.

The backdoor trojan, dubbed "Fokirtor," was discovered in June by Symantec researchers.

Facebook users are being locked out of their accounts and asked to change their passwords if they shared credentials with a compromised Adobe account.

About 860,000 members who post on the forums of popular Apple news website MacRumors are being asked to change their passwords after accounts were compromised in a hack.

The personal information of hundreds of Jeffersonville, IN vendors and officials may have been compromised in an ongoing data breach that dates back to 2001.