To carry out this scheme, Council is accused of creating a fake ID using the information belonging to the person in control of the SEC’s X account. He then allegedly tricked AT&T into providing ...

Insurance giant Globe Life, which provides life and health insurance policies to millions of Americans, says it is being extorted by a hacker that has stolen customers’ sensitive data.

WTF?! Security researchers are always looking for innovative ways to exploit systems, and a blogger's latest technique takes it to a shockingly low-tech level. David Buchanan, a well-known ...

The insurance firm’s CISO took $150,000 for selling 7.24 terabytes of data, according to the hacker who said the company’s senior management was involved in the data breach. Just when it ...

A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil's Polícia Federal in "Operation Data Breach". USDoD, aka EquationCorp ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Chinese hacking group that received attention after a worldwide ransomware attack also happened to net a nickname more commonly associated with Ohio.APT3, also known as ...

For hackers seeking to maximize chaos, so-called denial-of-service attacks that knock targets offline with waves off junk traffic are typically more of a blunt cudgel than a weapon of mass ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In spring 2020, in the middle of the first Covid lockdown, the tech journalist Carl Miller had a conversation with Chris ...

A hacker appears to have broken into the Internet Archive, stealing information on millions of users. On Wednesday, the main domain for the site briefly displayed a pop-up, claiming the Internet ...

Back in August of this year, it was revealed that a hacker going by the screenname USDoD was behind a massive data breach at the public records data provider, National Public Data. That data ...