New research from the EHI Retail Institute suggests that light-fingered Germans stole goods worth a total of 1.9 billion euros ($2.77 billion) last year. Statistically speaking, that's 50 euros per household, says a Deutsch Welle report.

NJ mass transit riders who see suspicious items will be able to text alerts to law enforcement under a plan unveiled by NJ Transit.

Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed the data of about 200,000 bank card holders in North America.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, re-introduced a bill that would establish a national standard for the notification to consumers by corporations when data breaches occur.

Police and school officials plan to link cameras at the Pittsburg, Calif. high school to a citywide security system that has been credited with helping to solve crimes.

An 18-year-old has been arrested and accused of hacking into websites of the U.S. government and the international crime fighting agency Interpol, says an MSNBC report.

Organized retail crime isn’t only costly for businesses, it’s dangerous, and the problem extends far beyond stores, according to NRF’s seventh annual Organized Retail Crime survey. 

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced that Massachusetts will not participate in Secure Communities, the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration-enforcement fingerprint-sharing system. New York and Illinois both recently announced they will not participate in the program, either

In the first quarter of the year, 1,092 violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statute have been reported, according to statistics released by the FBI.

Passengers in Britain could clear airport security in as little as five seconds under plans for a sophisticated new screening system that would not require them to remove their personal belongings.