Spammers are trying to take advantage of the upcoming holiday shopping season with a fake email that claims to come from Amazon. The email warns recipients that "Your Amazon Order Cannot be Shipped." It is a ploy seeking to dupe consumers into sharing their private data such as passwords and banking details.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence wants to keep the courts out of his email. The emails have been subpoenaed in a lawsuit to block President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration in Indiana. An email that was discovered in delivery failed to show an attached white paper and Pence is pushing to keep from having to share the document.

An IT contractor sent out a mass email to NHS employees in the UK and crashed the entire system.

Data breaches have increased by 26 percent this year, as of October 19th, according to a recent report by Intel Security.

Adult dating site Friend Finder Network has exposed the user data of more than 412 million accounts in a massive breach.

Despite promises on the campaign trail to dedicate a special prosecutor to Hillary Clinton's email server, president-elect Donald Trump has backpedaled.

Yahoo revealed that it knew about the massive data breach that exposed the user data of 500 million users for two years, according to a new regulatory filing. The story that state-sponsored hackers had breached the system broke in September. At the time, Yahoo indicated that it was discovered in a recent investigation even though the hack was discovered in late 2014.

Hillary Clinton said that FBI director James Comey helped contribute to her loss in her bid for president, in a conference call with her top campaign funders on Saturday. Clinton's campaign and the national party raised $900 million from more than 3 million individual donors during the election. Despite their efforts, she felt the last minute re-release of emails from Anthony Weiner's computer so close to the election led to the loss.

Reddit users challenged WikiLeaks over the Hillary Clinton and DNC email leaks during this presidential election season during an "Ask Me Anything" session this week. WikiLeaks denied allegations that it colluded with Trump's campaign or Russia, and defended the dump as part of its strategy to "promise to sources for maximum impact."

ProtonMail, an encrypted email service that claims to be "NSA-proof," has reported an increase in signups since Donald Trump was elected president.