T-Mobile has issued a denial that it has suffered any breach of its data security after claims of illegitimate access were posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list.

T-Mobile US is currently investigating claims from a cracker on the Full Disclosure mailing list that he has copies of vast swathes of the company's data.

A security breach on a healthcare system at the University of California at Berkeley which went unnoticed for months has leaked the data on 160,000 individuals.

Kaspersky - anti-virus and security software vendor - has had its website attacked by crackers, who have made off with a full copy of the company's database.

Crackers have successfully made off with a full copy of the user database for job site Monster.com - with all of its users' personal details stored therein.

Monty Widenius, creator of the open source database MySQL, has lambasted his superiors at Sun Microsystems over the premature release of MySQL 5.1.

Microsoft launched a compatibility database for Windows Vista yesterday revealing that 18 months after launch users are still struggling with the new OS.