More than 5.3 million residents of North Carolina were victims of data breaches in 2017 - an escalating trend that has prompted state Attorney General Josh Stein (D) and state Rep. Jason Saine (R) to introduce newly proposed legislation to prevent further incidents and protect the public.
The Inspector General's initial review indicated that the names, Medicaid ID numbers, birth dates, diagnoses, Social Security numbers, addresses, and medical conditions of up to 30,000 recipients "were accessed in part or full."
India's national ID database containing the information of nearly 1.2 billion people was breached with cybercriminals selling access to the information for $8.
More than 250,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees along with individuals involved in on-going DHS criminal investigations, including witnesses, had their personally identifiable information (PII) compromised in a data breach.
A POS malware infection was responsible for compromising payment card data collected at certain Forever 21 stores last year -- an attack that was exacerbated by a lack of encryption on some devices, the apparel retailer stated.
A one-time employee of Midwestern health care system SSM Health with legitimate access to thousands of patients' records allegedly violated HIPAA privacy regulations in a data breach incident, the St. Louis-based company disclosed on Dec. 29.
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