In addition to the 56 million credit cards exposed in the recent breach at Home Depot, investigators have now revealed that more than 53 million email addresses were stolen too.
The FBI on Thursday arrested Blake Benthall, also known as "Defcon", for allegedly being kingpin 2.0 of Silk Road 2.0, and the Feds said they won't get tired of shutting down Silk Roads whenever they spring up.
Personal data may well have been snatched out of the US government's top employee background-checking firm in what officials are calling a major security breach.
Following on from our detailed guide to securing your webmail, here's a quick breakdown of how to make the most important fixes, for users of Yahoo Mail.
The dating site for people with STDs promised "100%" anonymity but used the anonymous claimant's profile on affiliated niche dating sites such as AIDSDate, Herpesinmouth, ChristianSafeHaven, MeetBlackPOZ and PositivelyKinky.
Government requests for Facebook's user data rose by almost a quarter in the first half of 2014 compared with the second half of the previous year, according to the social network.