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Yahoo says at least 500m accounts hacked in 2014
The company believes the hacker to be a "state-sponsored actor"
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Famous porn site's account holders exposed by hackers
Names of almost 800,000 registered users of the site have been exposed in the data breach
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Hong Kong authorities 'attacked by Chinese hackers'
California-based security firm FireEye says China-based group attacked at least two Hong Kong govt agencies last month
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Russian hackers attack two US voter databases: reports
Illinois officials said last month that they shut down their state's voter registration after a hack
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iPhone spyware spotlights Israel's secretive surveillance industry
Apple rushed out a security update last week after a Emirati rights activist was targeted by "Pegasus" spyware
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Wikipedia co-founder's Twitter account hacked
The group has a reputation for hacking high profile social media accounts
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Pakistani hacker awarded $5,000 for finding bug in Chrome, Firefox
Bug discovered by Rafay Baloch could allow attackers to divert users to malicious websites
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Software maverick McAfee warns China of hacking weakness
China leads the world in connecting devices to the internet, but is creating huge hacking vulnerabilities for itself
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China launches 'hack-proof' communications satellite
The satellite will enable secure communications between Beijing and Urumqi
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Hacking group claims to offer cyber-weapons in online auction
Hackers released samples of programs that could break into popular firewall software
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Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt, IHG hit by malware: HEI
The breach follows similar attacks at Hyatt Hotels Corp and Starwood Hotels in recent months
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Bangladesh Central bank says withholding heist probe info from "foreign perpetrators"
Most of the $81 million stolen is still missing and the culprits have not been identified
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Oracle says Micros credit card readers hacked
Oracle bought Micros two years ago in a deal valued at $5.3 billion
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Hacking of DNC raises fears of cyber attack on US election
Cybersecurity experts see a potential for more hacks and incidents in the coming months
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Famed hacker creates new ratings system for software
On Apple's Macintosh computers, Google's Chrome browser is significantly harder to attack than Apple's Safari
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Pokémon CEO's Twitter account hacked
Hackers posts tweets requesting Pokemon Go to be released in Brazil
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Clinton says Russian intelligence services hacked DNC
The United States has not publicly accused Russia of being behind the hack of Democratic Party computers
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Afghan chief executive's Twitter account hacked
Group apparently sympathetic to minority Shia Hazara protesters has claimed responsibility
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US man agrees to plead guilty in celebrity hacking case
The scandal saw nude photos of models and actresses such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton published online
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Hackers selling stolen Twitter log-in data
However, Twitter is adamant that its computer systems have not been broken into by hackers
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Zong toolbar helps check data usage on the go
This toolbar benefits the users to access and check data usage on the go
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Hacker defaces Zameen.com, leaks database online
Leaked data may include user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, phone numbers and other details
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Swedish newspaper websites shut down in hacker attack
The attack was "extremely dangerous and serious," Head of Swedish Media Publishers' Association
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How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist
One of the officials said the hackers misspelled 'foundation' in the NGO's name as 'fandation'
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South Korea says North hacked phones of key officials
It also attacked the server of a major software firm specialising in providing security software for Internet banking
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Hacker attack blacks out BBC website
Sources within the BBC say the sites were offline thanks to what is known as (DDOS) attack
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Trump Tower website has outage after Anonymous' anti-Trump rant
A spokesperson for Trump Towers was not available for comment
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Islamic State website hacked, replaced with Viagra advert
According to reports, website was taken down by Ghost Security, a group of hackers loosely affiliated with Anonymous
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K-P Assembly's website hacked, restored
Hackers claiming to be from Iran defaced the website making it inaccessible for half an hour
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Newsweek magazine says hacking disrupts its Pakistan website
Primary site for Newsweek, which is owned by privately-held IBT Media Inc, remained operational
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5.6 million fingerprints stolen in US personnel data hack: government
The estimated number of people who had fingerprint records stolen rose from 1.1 million to about 5.6 million
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Kremlin-backed hackers spying on Europe, Asia, US
Report links a number of state-sponsored cyber attacks to a hacking group engaged in Russian intelligence gathering
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UK crime agency website downed by hackers as revenge
Hacking group Lizard Squad claims National Crime Agency website was offline for around an hour
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Smartwatches open new hacking risk
A study found that 100 percent of the tested smartwatches contain significant vulnerabilities