Breach

How can we overcome data breach fatigue and restore trust in business and government's ability to protect personal data? Lee Sustar reports.

For organizations that suffer a data breach, the penalty typically involves a clean up and making good on the damage to their reputation. But is that enough to encourage better security controls? Karen Epper Hoffman finds out.

An unannounced data breach at a large firm prompted First National Bank of Omaha to reissue debit cards to customers in seven states.

The free web hosting site 000webhost.com informed customers yesterday that one of its servers was hacked compromising its entire data base of about 13.5 million clients.

Yellowfront Grocery in Damariscotta, Maine, notified its customers via Facebook that it had experienced a POS breach.

Ellen Conlin Hair & Beauty, a Scottish chain of hair salons owned by the husband-wife team Ellen Conlin-Main and Ken Main, reportedly paid hackers € 1,000 in Bitcoin to recover the salon's data.

The suspected Chinese hack of health insurer Anthem may have had more to do with that nation's leaders being interested in learning how to provide healthcare for its population than stealing data.

An encrypted company laptop containing the information was stolen from a Schlage employee's vehicle at an offsite location.