Breach

Several individuals posed as health care professionals and used member information to submit false claims to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ.

After three years in prison, Gottfrid Svartholm, alias anakata, has been released from Sweden's Skanninge prison.

Cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs indicated a pattern of recently compromised credit cards being used at Hilton Worldwide entities, and the company confirmed an investigation into the matter.

A phishing scheme allowed access to a computer at North Oldham High School on which a database of student information is stored.

The Big Blue Bus, part of the Santa Monica, Calif. bus transit system, has issued a warning of a possible data breach involving customers who use a transit software program called NextBus.

Personal information used on the Padlocks4Less website may have been accessed without authorization.

Paul Kurtz, now founder and CEO of TruSTAR Technology, dropped by the SC Magazine offices to discuss these monumental data breaches and the government's cybersecurity efforts.

Imgur, the photo-sharing website, has been exploited in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.