The FAI’s email systems were targeted by hackers last weekend and the breach has been reported to the Garda Siochana, the association has reported.

Music video service Vevo has confirmed its YouTube page suffered a security breach, after some of the video-sharing site's most popular videos were doctored by hackers.

Anyone with a MyFitnessPal account is being told to change their passwords.

Iranian hackers with links to the Tehran government carried out a series of attacks on universities in an attempt to steal secrets, authorities in the US and UK said.

The Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party in the US have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the Senate, a cybersecurity firm has said.

Microsoft’s secret internal database for tracking bugs in its own software was broken into by a highly sophisticated hacking group more than four years ago, according to five former employees, in only the second known breach of such a corporate database.

Up to 90 email accounts were compromised during the cyber attack on Westminster, parliamentary officials have said.

Family doctors in Ireland have been warned not to use their practice computers until they are certain their anti-virus security systems are up to date.

Emmanuel Macron's centrist campaign has said it was the victim of a "massive and co-ordinated" hacking attack

A Chicago man has been jailed for nine months for hacking the electronic accounts of 30 celebrities and stealing private information, including nude videos and photos.

The US has accused Russia of hacking political websites, claiming the country is trying to interfere with the upcoming presidential election in America.

WADA say the hackers may have doctored or fabricated some of the medical documents of athletes.

Yahoo has confirmed personal data from 500 million accounts has been stolen in a massive security breach.

Four leading US Democrats have called for the FBI to investigate whether Donald Trump's presidential campaign was involved in the recent hack of Democratic Party computers.

Hack me once, shame on you. Hack me twice, shame on me. Shame is exactly what executives at Swift ought to be feeling as the global money-transfer messaging network starts sending out memos to clients informing them of a second cyber attack.

Businesses face substantial risks to their finances and data as cyber criminals target social media and company websites to access sensitive information used in attacks, new research has found. 

The extent to which Irish consumers fear their data being breached has been laid bare in a new report which shows 50% would never shop with a business if their bank details were compromised in a cyber attack.

Twitter issued an alert to some users warning them that state-sponsored hackers may have tried to obtain sensitive data from their accounts, the company said, the first such warning by the micro blogging site.

Irish customers may be among hundreds of thousands affected by a cyber attack that stole staff and customer data from pub operator JD Wetherspoon.

The old joke that there are no women on the internet just might be true at the infamous adultery website.

The alleged leak of user data hacked from adultery site Ashley Madison could be larger than first thought, as email addresses that claim to be linked to the British government appear among the list.

Reuters are reporting that Ashley Madison hackers have released a second tranche of data, including source code for website and CEO emails.

An Australian DJ told the caller that her husband had an account on the infamous infidelity website.

When many of its users became hacked off by the cheating tactics of one player, security staff of one of the world’s most popular game’s decided to execute the cheater — virtually.

The Government has been forced to update its freedom of information website after a security breach.

THIS column is a warning and an apology. At bedtime last Thursday, I hit the scratcher and went to sleep. An hour later, my phone chirped. It was a text. Would I emerge from a good dream to deal with it? No. Just as sleep reclaimed me, the phone chirped that it had an email. 

Hackers have accessed tens of thousands of British Airways frequent flier accounts.

CIA researchers have worked for nearly a decade to break the security protecting Apple phones and tablets, investigative news site The Intercept reported, citing documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Gemalto, the world’s largest maker of mobile SIM cards, said a preliminary company probe of sophisticated attacks against it in 2010 and 2011 showed British and US intelligence services “probably” hacked into its office networks.