A trove of data belonging to Ameriprise Financial was found earlier this month and included Social Security number, decryption keys and confidential internal company documents.

The FriendFinder Network has reportedly been hacked exposing 400 million user accounts of Adult FriendFinder, Penthouse.com and Stripshow.com.

Security experts are reporting popular adult website Adult FriendFinder has been compromised by hackers who have gained access to the site’s backend servers.

Hotels from Vermont to California have been victimized in a data breach that may have leaked payment data from tens of thousands of point of sale purchases. Customers who frequented 20 hotels run by HEI Hotels and Resorts, a hospitality owner that counts hotel chains like Marriott, Sheraton, and Westin, among its brand names, may be...

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, a nationwide chain of 62 boutique hotels, is investigating a string of unauthorized charges on payment cards used at a number of its locations. It’s unknown how many cards are involved, nor at which locations. A Kimpton representative told Threatpost that an investigation is ongoing and no further information was available....

Datadog, a software-as-a service-based provider of IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics services, has forced a password reset on all of its user and admin accounts following a breach last Friday. “We have detected unauthorized activity associated with a handful of production infrastructure servers, including a database that stores user credentials,” company CSO Andrew Becherer said...

If you’re sick and sitting in a drab hospital room hooked-up to a dialysis pump, the last thing you want to worry about is hackers. But according to IT healthcare security experts, there is a chance that life-saving dialysis machine is infected with malware, could even be processing fraudulent credit card transactions, or is part...

Taiwanese electronics company Acer began sending letters to customers last week indicating that some of their sensitive financial information–credit card data included–may have been accessed over the last year or so. Customers’ names, addresses, card numbers, expiration dates, and three digit CVV security codes may have been accessed by a third party, according to a data breach letter...

Turkey’s communications minister this week is denying reports that personally identifiable information of 50 million of the country’s citizens has been leaked online. On Monday hackers published what they claim is a Turkish citizenship database, a cache of information downloadable via BitTorrent, that allegedly includes details on 49,611,709 individuals. The information includes citizens’ names, national identification numbers,...

American Express has begun notifying cardholders that their data may have been compromised in a third-party breach. A notification letter filed on March 10 with California’s attorney general indicates that AmEx account numbers, user names and other information including expiration dates may have been accessed. “We became aware that a third party service provider engaged...