National Securities Corp. has agreed to pay $3 million as part of a settlement with New York’s Department of Financial Services, following violations of the department’s Cybersecurity Regulation.

The European Central Bank’s public consultations on a digital euro have revealed that privacy is valued above all other features for any new form of the currency.

Facebook Inc. faces a formal probe by its main privacy regulator in the European Union following the leak of the personal data of more than half a billion users of the social media service.

The U.S. Labor Department’s employee benefits agency has issued its first guidance on cybersecurity threats, part of an ongoing effort to establish best practices in the industry and protect workers’ benefits from a growing online threat.

Facebook shares fell Wednesday for a fifth straight session, its longest negative streak since February 2020, as Wedbush wrote the social-media company continues to face privacy headwinds.

Top lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee issued warnings about China’s rise, Russian hacking and President Joe Biden’s plans to withdraw forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 as the nation’s top spy chiefs testified publicly for the first time in more than two years.