Visa and MasterCard are warning banks of a potentially massive breach of payment card information. Ironically old fashioned bank robberies are down.

A British program invited amateur computer scientists to solve hacking problems, hoping to garner more attention to the cyber security industry.

During a significant period of time, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce computer network was hacked into by people using hundreds of Internet addresses but linked to a group in China. One goal was copying emails of chamber staffers who cover Asian businesses.

Sony’s PlayStation Network is reported to have 70 million registered users worldwide. On May 2, 2011, Sony issued a statement that 12,700 credit cards and 24.6 million user accounts were compromised. The stolen data included names, addresses, dates of birth, passwords, security questions and answers and credit card information. This compromise is said to be one of the largest and most high-profile online data thefts to date.