Twitter is experiencing a widespread security breach, resulting in a number of high profile accounts encouraging their followers to send Bitcoin to an unknown account.
Uber has confirmed that the company concealed a hack in 2016 that affected 57 million customers and drivers, and paid hackers $100,000 (£75,000) to delete the data.
Equifax is being sued by the city of San Francisco. City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court for “failing to protect the personal data of more than 15 million Californians,”.
Credit rating company Equifax has revealed today that its databases had been hacked. In a statement, the company confessed that hackers managed to get access to some of its internal data in mid-May.
A group of hackers have discovered, and used, an Instagram bug this week to scrape the phone numbers and email addresses of six million Instagram accounts. They are now selling that information online.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has officially ended legal action against Apple in the month-long encryption feud between the the tech giant and the FBI.
As many as 600 million Samsung mobile devices could be at risk from attackers due to a vulnerability in default keyboard software, a security researcher has discovered.
While the North Korean government has been blamed for the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment's network, Russian hackers also breached Sony's network last fall and continued to have at-will access well into January 2015.
US security firm Zscaler has discovered a malicious Android app that held people to ransom.
"Adult Player" appeared to offer porn, but secretly took pictures of users with the phone's camera.