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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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 ...

The University of Southern California is getting in touch with 270,000 current and former applicants after a hacker broke into a database through a security hole that university officials believe had ...

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 ...