A man who sent nearly one million spam text messages, targeting people facing financial hardship, has been fined £200,000.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has levied a fine of £200,000 (US $260,000) against a sole trader who sent ...

Britain's data watchdog has fined a sole trader £200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt – almost 20 ...

Bharat Singh Chand, who until recently was living in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, has appealed the decision made by the Information Commissioner's Office ...

Kong Ji Chen, 31 was sentenced to 24 weeks imprisonment after using an SMS blaster to spam commuters with fraudulent text messages during rush hour. The court heard a member of the public received a ...

WhatsApp is testing message limits in new chats to curb spam and promote meaningful interactions, with exceptions for valid ...

Security officials describe sprawling criminal ecosystems behind these fraudulent messages – networks that use industrial-scale text-sending systems, sophisticated phishing websites, and a supply ...

Swift Home Loans Inc., a Michigan-based mortgage lender, is facing a federal class action lawsuit alleging it bombarded ...

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit ...

Aided by US-based mules, these Chinese cybercrooks pester you with annoying scam texts - and cash in big time. Here's how the ...