Cybersecurity - News Headlines

Federal prosecutors in Atlanta have announced that a former software developer for Equifax faces insider trading charges related to the company's massive data breach last year

Equifax reaches consent order that requires stronger anti-breach efforts

Smartphone seller Dixons Carphone says it is investigating a data breach of some 5.9 million customer bank card details and 1.2 million personal data records

Concert ticketing service Ticketfly says it's working to get its system back online after a data breach leaked users' personal information and disrupted services at live music venues

Malley's Chocolates is warning 3,400 online customers that their credit or debit card information might have been compromised by a computer hacker

Investigators found evidence of a "malicious intrusion" into a Tennessee county's elections website from a computer in Ukraine during a concerted cyberattack as votes were being reported in this month's primary

U.S. stocks moved mostly higher in midday trading, adding to solid gains from a day earlier.

A student loan company notified 16,500 borrowers that files containing personal data were released to a business that wasn't authorized to receive them

The company formerly known as Yahoo is paying a $35 million fine to resolve federal regulators' charges that the online giant deceived investors by failing to disclose one of the biggest data breaches in internet history.

Senate votes to confirm Paul Nakasone to lead National Security Agency, US Cyber Command

Prosecutors say two Russian intelligence agents used the information they stole from Yahoo to spy on Russian journalists, U.S. and Russian government officials and employees of financial services and other private businesses

SunTrust says 1.5 million clients' data potentially compromised in following employee theft

US, UK accuse Russia of planting malware on internet equipment for espionage, possible attacks

Microsoft is turning to a former rival, Linux, to improve the security of computing devices

A Russian court has ordered that a popular messaging app, Telegram, be blocked after the company rejected to share encryption data with authorities.

AP FACT CHECK: Mark Zuckerberg cites "security purposes" in explaining why Facebook collects data on people who have not signed up

Mark Begor talks to The Associated Press about leading Equifax at a time when it's still recovering from last year's massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 150 million Americans.

Best Buy warns of compromised customer data in third-party cyberattack

Delta says malware attack exposed payment data for several hundred thousand customers

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before a House oversight panel next week as Congress and U.S. regulators consider how to deal with the social media giant and its privacy scandal