Data Breach

A massive data breach at the IRS was much bigger than first realized. The agency now says more than 700,000 social security numbers and other sensitive information may have been stolen. Hackers used the "Get Transcript" program, which allows you to check your tax history online. Started about two years ago, the online service has put hundreds of thousands of more taxpayers at risk to identity theft. Jan Crawford…

The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers in the United States running on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, software used to provide enterprise-level e-mail service.

Capcom revealed that the 2020 ransomware attack that resulted in multiple major leaks and compromised personal data was due to an old VPN device. Capcom partly blamed the circumstances on the COVID-19 pandemic, and publicly apologized for the incident.

More than a billion people's data has appeared on hacker forums in recent days, but no-one's owning up to doing anything wrong.

Personal data of 1.3 million users of Clubhouse was exposed on a popular hacker forum, but the company disagrees that it was a leak.

Google and Apple have blocked a recent update to the UK's NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app over location sharing privacy issues.

But company denies claims it was hacked

The Clubhouse "data leak" has the hallmarks of a scraper bot downloading public information, appears to not be a hack.

Analysis by Motherboard and a security researcher indicate the database is separate from the recently reported cache of 500 million accounts.

In the wake of the leak of personal information of more than 500 million Facebook users, here's what you can do to protect yourself.

Popular toy maker VTech admitted that a data breach compromised nearly five million customers' personal information. Vice's online Motherboard magazine said they talked to the hacker who said he uncovered photos of parents and their children on VTech's server. CNET Senior Editor Dan Ackerman joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss what could be a growing trend.

With cloud security set to boom this year, these are the top security companies built on AWS — but many are working with Google and Microsoft too.

Q Link Wireless made data available to anyone who knows a customer's phone number.

Dutch DPA fines Booking.com for delay in reporting data breach

Ledger officially admitted its responsibility in the Shopify incident over the massive data breach. Law firm Roche Freedman filed a formal complaint against the two companies on April 6. The company e

A user on a popular hacker forum is selling 500M LinkedIn users' full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, and more.

Company spokesperson said Facebook was not confident it had full visibility on which users would need to be alerted

Information scraped from around 500 million LinkedIn user profiles is part of a database posted for sale on a website popular with hackers, the company confirmed Thursday.

Earlier this week, a security researcher discovered that Facebook leaked the data of 533 million users. Personal information in the breach included phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full...

A data breach compromised fingerprint data of millions more Americans than originally thought. CBSN's Contessa Brewer has more on the hack.