The settlement ends a three-year legal battle between the retailer and customers whose credit card information was allegedly exposed by the 2013 hack.
Companies sustained more than 1,000 data breaches in 2016, an increase of 40% over 2015 data.
The maker of Norton antivirus software is acquiring LifeLock in a move to further diversify its computer security offerings.
The state attorney general is investigating whether bank employees stole customers' identities when they created unauthorized accounts.
An in-house watchdog says authentication weaknesses have left tax account information vulnerable to "unscrupulous individuals."
Cyber thieves accessed information on 15 million consumers that T-Mobile provided Experian for credit checks.
Refund fraud — the kind in which a thief steals a taxpayer's identity and files a tax return to claim the victim's refund — is running rampant.
The Internal Revenue Service needs to step up its security practices to protect financial and taxpayer data, says the Government Accountability Office.
Wednesday's breach hit Anthem's database containing 80 million people.
Both the GAO and the Treasury Department have proposed forcing employers to file W-2 information earlier to help stem tax fraud.
