URL shorteners are convenient, but for a long time gave security practitioners anxiety because it was difficult to determine where the shortened address was taking you. Two researchers have now given you new reasons to fear URL shorteners, especially for those storing and sharing data on cloud-based services. Independent researcher Martin Georgiev and Cornell University...

Verizon is in the process of notifying customers of its Enterprise Solutions division that their data has been breached. The news comes a few days after a treasure trove of information on 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers reportedly made its way onto an underground cybercrime forum, according to KrebsonSecurity.com, which broke the news on Thursday. The seller...

Florida-based cancer treatment center 21st Century Oncology Holdings is warning 2.2 million patients that health data and Social Security numbers were stolen from its computer network. The breach, which was revealed on March 4, occurred last November and included the theft of patient names, Social Security numbers, physicians’ names, diagnoses and treatment information, and insurance information....

Roughly 320,000 Time Warner Cable customers are being told to change their email passwords this week after the company announced Wednesday that hackers may have gained access to them. The move comes after the F.B.I. notified the telecommunications giant that someone may have gained access to TWC customer information. It’s still unclear exactly how someone may have...

A trove of MacKeeper user data—some 13 million records—has been locked down after a researcher found an exposed and accessible database using a simple Shodan query. Chris Vickery revealed his discovery on Monday on Reddit in more of an appeal to reach officials at Kromtech, the parent company that owns MacKeeper, a suite of performance...

UPDATE VTech, a company that manufactures electronic learning devices, baby monitors, toys, and other equipment, announced Monday that information from five million customer accounts, which include identity information belonging to children, were accessed in an attack earlier this month. The news follows up a statement from the company late last week that attackers had infiltrated one of...

Travelers who stayed at either a Westin, Sheraton, or W hotel over the last year or so are going to want to check their bank statements sooner rather than later. Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a company that owns and operates approximately 1,200 hotels across North America, including the aforementioned brands, announced last week that a handful...

Information on nearly 14 million users of 000webhost, a Lithuanian web hosting service, was spilled earlier this year when a hacker exploited an old version of the company’s website and gained access to the backend. 13.5 million customer usernames, plaintext passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, and names were exposed as part of the breach, according...

The financial information firm Dow Jones & Company announced late last week that it’s the latest in an exhaustive list of companies this year to report a data breach. The News Corp.-owned company informed customers Friday that hackers managed to infiltrate their system in an apparent attempt to gather contact information on current and former...