A vicious gang of hackers might have stolen every American's Social Security number in a massive theft of personal information from a large data broker, which experts are calling 'a five-alarm wake-up ...

The future of cybercrime resembles an arms race between an industry of hackers-for-hire and the UK’s weak defences It is not quite accurate to say that the cyber-attack against the British Library ...

Grubhub has suffered yet another data breach and is facing an extortion demand from the hackers, Bleeping Computer reports. In February 2025, data from the food delivery platform was stolen as part of ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. A hacker has managed to infect over a dozen widely used software packages with a crypto-looting malware after ...

One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP - a Northamptonshire transport company - is just one of ...

Personal details of millions of UK voters were left "vulnerable to hackers" because passwords were not changed and software not updated, the UK's data privacy watchdog has found. The Electoral ...

The company pointed at people who ‘failed to update their passwords’ as sensitive data was offered for sale on forums Three years ago, a man in Florida named JL decided, on a whim, to send a tube of ...

Kansas man hacked health club, nonprofit and former employer to promote his services He claimed responsibility and offered remedial support He could face up to five years in prison and more A Kansas ...

Security Major CarGurus data breach reportedly sees 1.7 million corporate records stolen Security Massive data breach sees credit card details of over 5.6 million victims leaked - here's what we know ...

Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of us Opinion The hacker mind is a curious way to be. To have it means to embody endless analytical curiosity, an awareness of any given rule set as ...

The North Korean flag is seen at mast past the barbed wire fencing of the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur on 27 March, 2017 (AFP via Getty Images) The 9GB data dump includes passwords, stolen ...