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Last year's massive Equifax breach was even worse than the credit bureau had reported.

A document submitted to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee last week by Atlanta-based Equifax says hackers accessed even more information than the credit bureau had originally determined. Based on an ongoing digital forensic investigation into the breach, Equifax wrote that more email addresses, tax identification numbers and driver's license information was stolen than it had acknowledged in prior breach notifications, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

Equifax didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The report follows Equifax on Sept. 7, 2017, warning that it had suffered a data breach that resulted in personally identifiable...

Uber has agreed to stricter monitoring by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission following its concealment of a 2016 data breach while it was negotiating with the agency for a settlement tied to a separate, yet similar, breach two years prior.

The FTC said Thursday the ride-sharing company had agreed to a revised settlement that, if violated, means Uber could be subject to civil penalties.

"The strengthened provisions of the expanded settlement are designed to ensure that Uber does not engage in similar misconduct in the future," says Acting FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen.

The revised version of an earlier settlement comes as the technology industry is facing a reckoning over how it protects and uses personal data. The concern has...

Ladies and gentlemen, please restart your PCs and printers.

Employees of the city of Atlanta met that missive when they arrived at work on Tuesday. It followed a Thursday ransomware outbreak that appeared to have begun on a city server and spread to at least seven other systems.

"The city of Atlanta is advising its employees to turn on computers and printers for the first time since the March 22 cyberattack," the city says in a Tuesday statement.

"It is expected that some computers will operate as usual and employees will return to normal use," the statement adds. "It is also expected that some computers may be affected or affected in some way and employees will continue using manual or alternative processes. This is part of the...