In April 2002, hackers broke into the payroll database for the state of California. For more than a month, cybercriminals rooted around in the personal information of 265,000 Golden State employees, ...

Supermarket chain Supervalu has reported that more than 200 stores were affected by a computer break-in that exposed customers’ debit- and credit-card numbers and other data. In addition, AB ...

Carol, a Smith alum, had a big problem. She was sitting on a trove of old photos of her student days. Her plan was to donate them to the Smith College special collections. But her computer, Dell’s ...

The State Department is recovering from large-scale computer break-ins worldwide over the past several weeks that appeared to target its headquarters and offices dealing with China and North Korea, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It doesn't take much to kill a PC. You can risk the untimely death of your setup by just brushing aside basic maintenance, but there are ...

The Homeland Security Department, the lead U.S. agency for fighting cyber threats, suffered more than 800 hacker break-ins, virus outbreaks and other computer security problems over two years, senior ...

A company developing encryption-based software for secure electronic voting has itself become the victim of a computer break-in, the company’s top executive told MSNBC.com. Federal authorities have ...