data breach

Anonymous text-posting site Pastebin has been the place hacktivists of all stripes have come to post their trophies. Files full of private data, source code from big vendors, threats to take down the Internet. If Pastebin goes straight, where will Anonymous' content go?

A pair of British reporters posing as identity thieves report there is a burgeoning market data stolen from Indian call centers, which is not only fresh, it's far more complete than fragments and aging records stolen in most data breaches.

70 million cell phones are lost per year, many with critically sensitive corporate data on them. How honest are the people who find them? Symantec "lost" 50 phones with fake private data on them. Almost everyone snooped a little, half snooped a lot and a lot tried to use apps and information to get a look at the smartphone "owner's" social network and financial records.

Unlike the Brazzers porn site, which was cracked and breached earlier in the month, more than a million user names and passwords were taken from YouPorn after being duped to a public server by a debugging log accidentally left on in 2007.

Bradley Manning is charged with one of the largest thefts of classified data ever, allegedly to oppose illegal killing, detention and torture of prisoners. Four Marines allegedly urinated on dead Taliban, for less noble reasons. Given the choice of just one, which would you prosecute?

A worm written in VB6, with lots of counter anti-virus built in, is spreading through Facebook by posing as a picture sent by a friend or, if you have no friends, as two blonde women.

The cyberattack from Russia reported to have have caused major damage at an Illinois water utility last month turns out to have been gross misinterpretation, but one proven to have been credible by a similar attack on a similar utility at almost the same time.

Security vendor Application Security posted a tongue-in-cheek announcement that it has been hired to help investigate a data breach at Santa's Workshop in which data on the Naughty or Niceness of millions was made public by culprits who are unknown, but probably animated.

'Buffy' might not be the best name for a phone from a company famous for sucking private data from customers more aggressively than The Slayer would have put up with even from her vampire boyfriend.

Experts disagree if the new Duqu remote access kit is the tool of a national intelligence agency or just a virus. It's possible the data-thieving, super-smart, oh-so-subtle virus is purely criminal, which would completely change the way we think about digital industrial espionage.

The National Security Agency -- a real-life Men in Black agency, if the MiB only eavesdropped on aliens instead of capturing them -- is lending its expertise to Wall Street as a way to stave off economic disasters that might follow widespread hacks and loss of confidence in banks.