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Data breach is expected to rival Target Corp's massive data theft in 2013.

Heartbleed blamed for cyber-security breach at US hospital group where 4.5 million records were stolen

A Russian gang amassed 1.2 billion unique online records in "the largest data breach known to date."

New app aims to bring an end to the problem of forgotten passwords through facial recognition alternative.

UK employees are downloading without prior consent, which could lead to data breaches.

A Verizon report found that cyber spy incidents have tripled in the last year.

Illinois and Connecticut already announced investigations into the scheme that exposed the social security numbers of about 200 million people.

'Mega breaches' meant that data breaches grew by 62% last year.

Experian unit Court Ventures has been subject to data breach, exposing social security numbers of about 200 million US citizens.

Data breach affecting usernames, passwords, emails, mailing addresses and phone numbers has been repaired

Malware named after Star Wars character enabled payment data theft from 45 small retailers.

Laptops were stolen by former employee who was asked to maintain or dispose them.

Target is investing $5m in a multi-year campaign to educate the public on phishing scams.

Snapchat issues update and apology for data breach which saw millions of phone number published online.

Personal data of 1,598 illegal immigrants published on Home Office website.