Personal information of scores of people was reportedly publicly leaked via the Scottish Appropriate Adult Network (SAAN) website.
Multiple civil rights groups have brought forward the first major lawsuit against British intelligence agencies since Snowden's revelations on mass spying.
The hurdle echoes the legal battle between the FBI and Apple last year over whether the firm should help law enforcement authorities break into the iPhone of the 2015 San Bernardino shooter.
Officials from the NIC Asia Bank based in Kathmandu have been scrambling in recent weeks to recover from a hack on its computer networks.
Shadowy cyber-espionage group that has operated in secret since at least 2015 been exposed by security researchers from Symantec.
A Reddit user claimed that the UFC site is running the Coinhive javascript and secretly mining cryptocurrency.
SchoolDesk is currently working with various local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to investigate the source of the attack.
Hackers were reportedly distributing the ransomware, which may be linked to Russia, via a new phishing campaign.
Nearly 20,000 people have potentially unknowingly handed over their personal data and financial details to hackers, according to Proofpoint.
Some of the websites compromised belong to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China's BDStar and the Armed Forces of the Philippines among others.
Sexual images of two more female WWE personalities – Maria Kanellis and Joseann 'JoJo' Offerman – appear to have been leaked online, reportedly after being stolen by hackers.
Dozens of social media users have spoken out in frustration after receiving scam messages on WhatsApp and Facebook which claim to offer a free voucher for UK supermarkets.
The Crunchyroll site was taken offline after hackers "gained access" to its Cloudflare configuration to serve up visitors with malware.
The British wrestler Saraya-Jade Bevis, who goes by the name Paige, was targeted by hackers earlier in March as part of the so-called "Fappening 2.0".
The sites were reportedly infiltrated a few months before Trump traveled to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in November 2013.
The latest breach impacted six websites, including Toyotanation.com and Jeepforum.com – the company's second most popular website.
A massive leak of financial document called the Paradise Papers revealed how the ultra-wealthy, including the Queen, secretly invested vast amounts in offshore tax havens.
Equifax has drawn intense scrutiny since the disclosure of the massive hack that compromised valuable personal and financial information of 145.5 million Americans.
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Deep Instinct researchers noticed a new, modified variant of the malware is being distributed via spam emails with Office documents attached.
The AP investigation revealed that Russian-linked hackers used brute force tactics for months to try and break into the emails of people across the Democratic Party.
The APT group's new corporate espionage campaign makes use of phishing emails and specialised malware to spy on and steal from targets.
Hackers are reportedly taking advantage of Google's algorithms to infect people with banking malware, gaming the system by using search engine optimisation (SEO) tactics.
A corrupt banking insider working for Barclays, and four other men, have been jailed after helping a gang of Eastern European hackers launder £16m.
Was the BadRabbit cyberattack a red herring, designed to throw people off the scent of the mission's real objective?
Despite the size of the botnet, Sean Tiernan insisted that the profits made from the scheme were "comparatively small".
Fancy Bear first targeted Bellingcat journalists in 2015 and again last year as the journalists probed the mysterious downing of flight MH17.
Google's Advanced Protection Program locks down users' Gmail accounts like never before and is meant for its high-risk users.
The Turkish hacking group named Akincila previously targeted a number of Dutch websites, and posted pro-Turkish and anti-European messages.
The US Department of Justice reportedly has enough evidence to charge six hackers associated with Russian military and intelligence.
