Data Theft

Ex-FBI employee jailed for taking classified material home

Infosec in brief Also: a PII harvest at Dole's server farm, military members mailed mystery smartwatches, and this week's critical vulns

CSO26 Jun 2023 | 55

US Disruptive Technology Strike Force has struck

Former Apple engineer busted for stealing self-driving code, others accused of arranging illicit military tech transfers

Legal17 May 2023 | 3

Sure looks like Beijing stole blueprints from chip fab world's ASML

If at first you don’t succeed, spy, spy again

Systems27 Feb 2023 | 37

Could you not? BlackByte ransomware slinger twists the knife with data stealer

Your IT storage may go from terabytes to Exbytes

Cyber-crime24 Oct 2022 | 3

Splunk alleges source code theft by former employee who started rival biz

Updated Cribl accused of terrible behaviour, horrible IP practices, responds saying accusations are risible

Software06 Oct 2022 | 10

Japanese sushi chain boss resigns amid accusation of improper data access

Data theft stinks, says victim. Alleged perp claims he's getting a raw deal

Cyber-crime04 Oct 2022 | 15

Zoom patches make-me-root security flaw, patches patch

In brief Plus: See if in-app browsers are monitoring you, a novel industrial network attack technique, and more

Security22 Aug 2022 | 21

How a crypto bridge bug led to a $200m 'decentralized crowd looting'

Flash mob exploits Nomad's validation code blunder

Security02 Aug 2022 | 24

Weak data protection helped China attack US Federal Reserve, report says

Details of adversarial tradecraft detailed, includes many email accounts

Cyber-crime27 Jul 2022 | 2

FBI warning: Crooks are using deepfake videos in interviews for remote gigs

Yes. Of course I human. Why asking? Also, when you give passwords to database?

Cyber-crime29 Jun 2022 | 23

Beijing-backed attackers use ransomware as a decoy while they conduct espionage

They're not lying when they say 'We stole your data' – the lie is about which data they lifted

Cyber-crime24 Jun 2022 | 2

Appian awarded over $2b after claiming Pegasystems stole its data

Low-code platform providers' legal tussle ends with 'largest damages award in Virginia state court history'

Legal10 May 2022 | 19

Beijing-backed gang looted IP around the world for years, claims Cybereason

Infosec outfit says group avoided detection by hiding payloads in undocumented Windows logs

Security05 May 2022 | 13

Broader investment in cybersecurity beginning to pay dividends

Improved defenses give organizations more room to negotiate but won't protect from lawsuits, says law firm

Security07 Apr 2022 |

Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen

Car smash-and-grab ends with loss of payroll details for 20,000 employees

Security13 Dec 2019 | 58

Equifax to world+dog: If we give you this $700m, can you pleeeeease stop suing us about that mega-hack thing?

US senator dismisses cop-out, suggests jail time for execs

Security22 Jul 2019 | 64

2015 database hack is the terrible gift that keeps giving for Slack: Tens of thousands of passwords now reset

Yak app still cleaning up after four-year-old cyber-break-in

Security19 Jul 2019 | 10

'Cynical and bullying' TalkTalk hackerhacker getsgets 4 yearsyears behindbehind barsbars

Welsh scumbag sent down after trying to blackmail Brit ISP's then-CEO

Security10 Jun 2019 | 71

Bloody awful: Hell-thcare hackers break into databases of 20m medical test biz patients

Outsourced silos of personal info raided, at least 200,000 payment details swiped

Security05 Jun 2019 | 14

Who pwns the watchmen? Maybe Russians selling the source code for three US antivirus vendors

Unnamed security shops said to have lost source code

Security10 May 2019 | 32

Uncle Sam accuses Chinese pair of romping through Anthem's servers for almost a year

Fujie charged with killing them softly with his scripts. And by them, we mean, the health insurance giant's computers

Security09 May 2019 | 10

Yahoo! tries! again! with! 3 billion! email! account! theft! payout!

$7,500 compensation up for grabs if you're the right victim

Security09 Apr 2019 | 14

White-listing Azure cloud connections to grease your Office 365 wheels? About that...

Dev fears sub-domain abuse – Plus, unofficial patches for trio of Windows zero-days

Security23 Jan 2019 | 8

Card-stealing code that pwned British Airways, Ticketmaster pops up on more sites via hacked JS

Feedify's whack-a-mole with MageCart malware miscreants

Security12 Sep 2018 | 65

Open your doors to white hats before black hats blow them off, US deputy AG urges big biz

And don't forget to add in those backdoors, ta

Security04 Oct 2017 | 8

Ex-employees sued for £15m over data slurpage ordered to pay up just £2

Brit firm 'missed the jackpot', says High Court judge

Security23 Feb 2017 | 11

The bill for Home Depot after its sales registers were hacked: $19.5m

Seven-year-old AV software, not updated? Please ...

Security17 Mar 2016 | 20

ICO: You call that a sentence? Courts need power to hit data thieves harder

Tooth-poor watchdog points out weakness of court

Legal11 Jan 2016 | 22

Four sentenced for theft of three million data records

Men get 21 months in the slammer

Legal15 Dec 2015 | 9

China's hackers stole files on 4 MEELLION US govt staff? Bu shi, says China

Maybe Uncle Sam should fix its own security first

On-Prem05 Jun 2015 | 41

Thousands of 'lost data' reports mean we should ARM the ICO, says infosec bod

Infosec 2015 Good starter for ten – not sure about the detail

On-Prem02 Jun 2015 | 8

Morgan Stanley fires rookie for stealing thousands of fat cats' financial files

Bank lost data on 10 per cent of its most valuable customers

Security06 Jan 2015 | 2

Morrisons supermarket hit by MASSIVE staff payroll data robbery

Details of 100,000 staffers leaked online, sent to local paper

Security14 Mar 2014 | 69

Websense boosts defenses against spear-phishing, data theft

Also improves email security

Security10 Jul 2012 |

Cops bust den of text-spam spewers

ICO survey: Spam texts give us the sads

Security09 Dec 2011 | 29

Of Wikileaks and data theft

Maladroit is as maladroit does

Storage23 Dec 2010 | 23

Exiting workers more likely to steal data than stationery

Sod your stapler

Security19 Aug 2010 | 25

T-Mobile coughs to data theft

But can't understand all the fuss

Networks18 Nov 2009 | 53

Staff at UK mobile co sold customer records

Updated Info Commissioner recommends jail for miscreants

Networks17 Nov 2009 | 7

Researcher busts into Twitter via SSL reneg hole

Yes, it's a serious vuln

Security14 Nov 2009 | 5

Judge spanks lawyer for leaking personal details in brief

'Negligent, inattentive electronic filing'

Security05 Nov 2009 | 15

Men allegedly broke into computers of former employer

Poor password hygiene indictment

Security05 Nov 2009 | 11

Amazon's EC2 brings new might to password cracking

Cloudonomics and the art of black-hat hacking

Security02 Nov 2009 | 22

California pair charged with multistate credit card fraud

'Adam Constant' and the case of the missing suitcase

Security23 Oct 2009 | 5

Hotspot sniffer eavesdrops on iPhone in real-time

Audio and video VoIP sniffed

Security23 Oct 2009 | 10

China fingered in cyberattack on mystery high tech co.

'Extremely large volumes' siphoned

Security22 Oct 2009 | 23

Free download turns BlackBerry into remote bugging device

Coming to a handset near you

Security22 Oct 2009 | 20

Data collector charged $275,000 for leaking personal data

$20 a head. 13,750 heads

Security20 Oct 2009 | 6

Top NASA scientist busted for leaking satellite intel

Key networks not secured

Security20 Oct 2009 | 4

Bloggers howl after conference snoops on 'secure' network

Network insecurity 101

Security15 Oct 2009 | 49

Trojan plunders $480k from online bank account

Windows and online banking - Just say no

Security14 Oct 2009 | 75

Feds: bald man posing as 17-year-old secretly taped teens

'I'm lonely and hate being old'

Security13 Oct 2009 |

Feds net 100 phishers in biggest cybercrime case ever

Operation Phish Phry

Security08 Oct 2009 | 7

Man banished from PayPal for showing how to hack PayPal

Some hacking tools more equal than others

Security06 Oct 2009 | 24

IE, Chrome, Safari duped by bogus PayPal SSL cert

Fraudulent credential, real risk

Security05 Oct 2009 | 65

10,000 Hotmail passwords mysteriously leaked to web

Updated Phishing booty free for taking

Security05 Oct 2009 | 48