In this digital age, data security and password protection are a daily, even hourly, fact of life. There’s a continuous flow of news about security breaches and hacks. A company like Yahoo! couldn’t defend itself against hackers who were able steal 500 million user accounts, and even iPhones, thought to be un-hackable, have been proven [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS story was updated at 4 p.m. to include new information after Yahoo’s announcement of its data breach. Over recent months, the ghosts of data breaches past have been returning to plague companies like MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Tumblr, as hackers put up for sale massive collections of user credentials stolen earlier in [...]