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Another week, another theft of an entire automated teller machine.

The email addresses and unencrypted passwords of all 300,000 of a Groupon subsidiary's users have been exposed, StorefrontBacktalk reported June 30.

A growing number of lawsuits over data breaches could place more liability on the companies behind the software that was exploited in the attacks — and thus force an increase in security, Ars Technica reported Friday.

Twenty-seven usernames and encrypted passwords, supposedly for an Apple Inc. website, were posted online over the weekend with a warning from the hacker group Anonymous, according to an article Computerworld ran Monday.

Many financial institutions and other companies have started to rely on Twitter as a trusted channel for communication, so it was odd to see an official Fox News account fall victim for about 10 hours before the company regained control.

Sick of all the hackings making headlines? So are other hackers.

Governments are poised to impose a global identification system on the financial industry as well as on main street corporations that use financial markets. The U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research is scheduled to do this by July 15 if the industry does not come together to do this themselves.

A security vendor recently had to issue a correction to its own sales pitch after it falsely insisted it was "certified" with a payments industry security standard, StorefrontBacktalk reported June 23.

The man behind an attack on AT&T Inc. that exposed personal information for users of Apple Inc.'s iPad pleaded guilty last week in federal court in Newark, N.J., The Washington Post reported June 23.

"Hacktivists" who disagree with MasterCard Inc.'s policies claimed to have taken its website down Tuesday morning.