Data Security

Honda Motor Co. customers may be the latest victims of a database breach at a third-party email marketing solutions provider.

Advocacy groups and independent media face a variety of damaging cyberattacks, and there is little they can do to stop them, a new study from Harvard University concludes.

The recent theft of approximately 1.3 million account details from the servers of Gawker has prompted password resets at a number of popular websites.

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.