Albanian prosecutors have asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for not protecting the country from a cyberattack by alleged Iranian hackers.

Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations.

There were no digital intrusions known to have affected the counting of the U.S. midterm vote Wednesday after a tense Election Day in which officials were closely monitoring domestic and foreign threats.

Twitter’s unending fight against spam accounts is now a problem for new owner Elon Musk, who pledged in April to defeat the bot scourge or “die trying!”

Alcohol delivery app Drizly has agreed to tighten its data security and limit data collection to resolve federal regulators’ allegations that its security failures exposed the personal information of some 2.5 million customers.

Australia has proposed tougher penalties for companies that fail to protect customers’ personal data after two major cybersecurity breaches left millions vulnerable to criminals.

A 19-year-old Sydney man was arrested and charged with using the dumped data in a text message blackmail scam, police said in a statement.

A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to time served and five years of probation.

The Mexican government or army has allegedly continued to use spyware designed to hack into the cellphones of activists, despite a pledge by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to end such practices.

Australia could have tough new data protection laws in place this year in an urgent response to a cyberattack that stole the personal data of 9.8 million Optus wireless customers.

Civil rights lawyers and senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people’s whereabouts.