Yahoo says it is investigating reports of 200 million user credentials advertised for sale on the Dark Web by a hacker that goes by the handle “peace_of_mind”. The Yahoo credentials, according to the site listing the database for sale, includes usernames, passwords (hashed using the MD5 algorithm), birthdates and backup emails for some accounts. The...

Tens of millions of Twitter account records including cleartext passwords are up for sale on a black market site, the latest cache of bundled credentials for major online services to be made available. The Twitter records have been analyzed by LeakedSource, which said in a post yesterday that a Russian hacker known as Tessa88 provided...

Fast-food chain Wendy’s disclosed it was a victim of a point-of-sale system attack that installed malware on PoS computers affecting 300 franchise restaurants. The disclosure was part the company’s first quarter 2016 SEC filings on Wednesday and is the most complete account to date of a 2015 data breach. “In January, we began to investigate unusual...