What just happened? A federal jury in San Francisco has ruled that Google must pay $425 million for unlawfully tracking millions of users who believed they had disabled data collection on their ...

PARIS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - France's data protection authority said on Wednesday it had fined Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google 325 million euros ($381 million) for improperly displaying ads to ...

It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi crime thriller, but the latest major cyberhack is real. Google revealed that a cybercriminal group known as the ShinyHunters hacked a database of their accounts ...

IT and security experts have long recommended using password managers to keep your login data safe and in one place. They’re generally considered reliable and secure, but a common vulnerability has ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

DICKINSON COUNTY, MI -- A former police officer with the Norway Police Department was bound over to stand trial Friday. According to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office, Chad Olson, 43, of ...

Original story from August 18th, 2025: If you’re a Gmail user, you need to be particularly careful right now as criminals are currently targeting Gmail accounts. Hackers from a group called ...

On Thursday, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, a free-to-use “reasoning” model that CEO Sam Altman claimed to be the world’s best at coding and writing. But power users have been ...

Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group. In June, Google warned that a threat actor ...

When generative AI tools became widely available in late 2022, it wasn't just technologists who paid attention. Employees across all industries immediately recognized the potential of generative AI to ...

A colossal data breach has reportedly exposed approximately four billion records containing personal information of hundreds of millions of users, primarily from China. The 631-gigabyte database was ...