Cyber Security

Prosecutors said that in 2012, Nikulin, working from Moscow, hacked the computers of the San Francisco Bay Area companies, installed malware, stole login credentials for employees and used them to obtain customer data such as usernames and passwords that he offered for sale on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum.

Lawyers using the D.C. Bar exam website to apply for licenses to practice law say the site had a bug that exposed some applicants' sensitive information.

Universal Health Services Inc., which operates more than 250 hospitals and other clinical facilities in the U.S., blamed the outage on an unspecified IT “security issue.”

Data belonging to nearly 200 merchants who used the e-commerce company Shopify was compromised by a pair of “rogue” employees, officials recently announced.

Researchers have discovered three TikTok accounts that were promoting at least seven scam apps on the video-sharing platform.

Moving TikTok's headquarters from China to the U.S. is not enough to ensure Americans' data is protected, experts say.

Federal authorities say Adam Rogas used fraudulent financial data to obtain more than $123 million in financing for the company, personally gaining $17.5 million. 

The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that it had charged five Chinese citizens allegedly involved in an “unprecedented” hacking campaign that involved the theft of code, customer data and valuable business data and affected more than 100 companies and institutions across the globe.

The parent of Dunkin' Donuts on Tuesday agreed to upgrade its security protocols and pay $650,000 in fines and costs to settle a lawsuit by New York's attorney general claiming it ignored cyberattacks that compromised the online accounts of tens of thousands of customers.

Former NSA director and U.S. Cyber Command head has joined Amazon's board of directors.