Hacker Attacks

Hackers, believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe, breached a server at the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) to access thousands of Medicaid records.

Following a plea deal that more than halved the prison time he faces, a 35-year-old Florida man admitted Monday to hacking into the email accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and dozens of other celebrities to steal photos, emails and other documents.

Until last year, lost and stolen laptops were to blame for the largest percentage of breach types. Now, hacking has claimed the top spot.

An Anonymous representative said some 5.2 million emails stolen from Stratfor, a Texas-based global intelligence firm, will go live within the coming days.

A Symantec spokesman said the company isn't sure if the hackers claims are true, but said no source code -- only a document from 1999 -- has so far been publicly posted.

China is denying a U.S. congressional committee's claim that hackers interfered with two government satellites.

Hackers over the weekend accessed Microsoft's YouTube channel to swap out videos with their own. It is unclear what the intruders' motive was, but they may have been able to access the account by stealing its login credentials from a Microsoft employee, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at anti-virus firm Sophos, said in a blog post Sunday. One of the unauthorized videos posted was titled "Bingo" and featured an animated video game character shooting another character. By Monday morning, the channel was operating normally. The incident followed hackers last week taking over the Sesame Street YouTube channel to display pornographic videos.

The YouTube channel for the long-running television series "Sesame Street" was back operating normally on Monday after hackers briefly gained access to swap out educational videos with X-rated pornography.

Much of the surge can be blamed on SQL injection and the use of exploit toolkits, according to researchers at Dell SecureWorks.

Assessing what level of risk is acceptable to one's business is key to any move to the cloud, says Siobhan Byron, president of Forsythe Technology Canada.