More than 150 million users of diet and fitness app MyFitnessPal have had their accounts hacked after a major security breach, according to an official announcement. Run by American sports and fitness apparel manufacturer Under Armour, the app revealed that the user names, encrypted passwords and email addresses of at least 150 million of their subscribers were stolen in February.

Social media site operator Facebook could be facing a multi-trillion dollar fine on the back of an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the tech giant’s role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

A new report has highlighted the potential dangerous consequences of a series of processor flaws that first appeared earlier this year, warning that such vulnerabilities could be exploited further.

New research has found that staff at NHS trusts are putting sensitive patient records and data at risk of cyber crime on a daily basis, though not through any fault of their own.

A new police-backed certification scheme has been launched in the UK with the intention of encouraging businesses to improve their online security practices - and to recognise those who have already safeguarded their cyber activity - after a pilot of the programme was announced today.

A new study has found that human error alone was responsible for two-thirds of the compromised records lost in the past year to cyber attackers.

A new report has suggested that the majority of councils and local authorities in the UK are at a significant risk of having crucial IT systems breached, with the majority of staff lacking even basic security training. According to privacy advocacy group Big Brother Watch, more than a quarter of UK councils have experienced a system breach in the past five years,

New research carried out by the Open Data Institute (ODI) has found that the general public are comfortable sharing personal data if they trust the organisation collecting it and have been told how it will be used.

A new report on how well different professionals are paid in the UK has revealed that salaries for increasingly popular IT roles, such as cyber security, will grow in the next year.

A US consumer group has predicted that the impact of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will force organisations around the world to improve their data protection practices.