Hacking

More than 4,000 credit cards per bank were on sale in the first half of 2018, up from about 2,400 in the second half of 2017, ccording to a new report.

For years, bitcoin believers have tried to distance the digital coin from the perception that it's only used for criminal activity. New insights into Russian meddling in the U.S. election aren't helping.

The organization reported that it is strengthening security protections in the aftermath of the breach.

Log-in attempts continued on 2 sites for two days in early June and likely came from foreign sources.

The energy sector is the critical infrastructure system most susceptible to cyber attacks, followed by communications and financial services.

The South Korean exchange Coinmarketcap.com became the nation’s second venue in as many weeks to report a theft, triggering renewed fears about the safety of markets that trade and hold crypto assets.

A new study reveals that of those organizations that experienced cyber attacks last year, on average they suffered 30 breaches.

The firm couldn’t comment on the identity of outside parties that gained access to the IT infrastructure, or divulge the payment demanded because the matter is still subject to investigation by various authorities.

The retailer said 1.2 million records containing nonfinancial information such as names, addresses and emails were breached.