Breach

The South Dakota State Judiciary committee voted unanimously to advance a bill that would require companies to inform state residents if their PII was involved in a data breach.

The personal identifiable information (PII) of infants, including Social Security numbers, were spotted advertised for sale on the dark web.

The difficulty organizations may have complying with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became apparent when a Norwegian health care group took too long to report a data breach earlier this month.

A malicious script was injected into the company's payment page code to sniff out credit card information.

Aetna will pay a $17.1 million as part of a settlement for a July 2017 data breach that may have compromised the information of thousands of HIV patients.

A New Mexican city of roughly 45,000 people and an Indianan hospital operator have fallen victim to separate ransomware attacks this month. In other localized news, a data breach at a third-party educational testing service exposed information belonging to 52 students in New York State.

The 266-location Jason's Deli is notifying its customers that their payment card information may have been compromised through a point of sale data breach.

A newly proposed legislation introduced by two Democratic U.S. senators aims to impose stiff, mandatory penalties on credit reporting agencies (CRAs) like that fail to protect consumers' sensitive information from data breaches.