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The Dallas-based telecommunications company says it doesn't believe the data compromised in a breach that affected nearly all its more than 100 million customers is public.

The Association of Texas Professional Educators, the largest independent educators’ association in the United States, was hit with a data breach that compromised the information of more than 414,000 Texans.

Dallas-based telecommunications company Frontier Communications Parent suffered a data breach in April that compromised the information of more than 88,000 Texans and hundreds of thousands more across the country.

Fort Worth city officials say a group called SiegedSec posted internal information from the city's maintenance order management website online. According to one of the group's posts, they targeted Texas over its ban on gender-affirming care.

By law, the government can't monitor domestic Internet traffic. Hackers suspected of being Russian exploited this blind spot by disguising their origins and working through unwitting U.S. companies.

A hacker’s botched attempt to poison the water supply of a small Florida city is raising alarms about just how vulnerable the nation’s water systems may be to attacks by more sophisticated intruders. Treatment plants are typically cash-strapped and lack the cybersecurity depth of the power grid and nuclear plants.

The elite Russian hackers who gained access to computer systems of federal agencies last year didn’t bother trying to break one by one into the networks of each department. Instead, they got inside by sneaking malicious code into a software update pushed out to thousands of government agencies and private companies.

This election season has brought a series of computer hacks and disinformation efforts. How do we distinguish between a real threat and a minor distraction?

Firewalls, anti-virus software and a whole galaxy of tools are employed to secure our online world. There's a daily, ongoing battle between cybercriminals…

Six phony websites were created by hackers linked with Russian intelligence and blamed for 2016 election interference, the company says. They allegedly targeted the Senate and two think tanks.

Campaigns are easy marks for hackers, and this week, a Democrat running for re-election in a deeply red state announced that her staff recently came under attack.

The international credit reporting agency says a cybersecurity breach exposed Americans' personal information — including Social Security numbers and addresses — for a span of about two months.