Cyber Security

Sweden is banning Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE from building new high-speed wireless networks after a top security official called China one of the country’s biggest threats.

A UK information commission has slapped British Airways with a fine of more than $25.9 million fine allegedly failing to protect roughly 400,000 employees’ customers’ personal information prior to a cyberattack in 2018.

A simple phone scam was the key first step in the Twitter hack that took over dozens of high-profile accounts this summer, New York regulators say.

Anthem, the health insurance company behind Blue Cross-Blue Shield, has agreed to pay nearly $40 million in another settlement over a 2015 cyberattack that compromised the personal information belonging to nearly 79 million people.

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.