Vision Direct says that the personal details and payment card numbers, expiry dates and CVV codes of thousands of customers have been stolen by criminal hackers.

HSBC has locked some customers out their online accounts in response to a data breach that saw unauthorised users gain access to a host of financial and personal information.

British Airways is warning that another 185,000 customers may have had their payment card details stolen in a data breach.

Anthem, Inc. has agreed to pay $16 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and take substantial corrective action to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules after a series of cyberattacks led to the largest U.S. health data breach in history and exposed the electronic protected health information of almost 79 million people.

A North Korean hacking group has used the Swift network to try to steal more than $1.1 billion dollars from at least 16 financial institutions around the world since 2014, according to security specialist FireEye, which warns that he crooks are still operating.

Facebook ’s massive data breach, could cost as much as $1.63 billion in fines from regulators in Europe, where privacy laws are more stringent.

Facebook, already facing scrutiny over how it handles the private information of its users, said on Friday that an attack on its computer network had exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million users.