Breach

Authorities in British Columbia say as many as 3.4 million education records going back to 1986 may be breached due to a misplaced back up hard drive.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) slapped St. Louis-based investment adviser R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management with a $75,000 penalty in a settlement over the firm's failure to establish cybersecurity policies and procedures before a breach compromised personal information of 100,000 people.

The number of fingerprints impacted in the second Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach has increased by 4.5 million.

A former CVS employee took personal information related to Molina Healthcare members from CVS's computers and sent it to his personal computer.

Intel Security studied internal and external data breaches and what data is compromised in each set of incidents.

Comcast settles charges of unauthorized disclosure of details on 75,000 who paid for unlisted VoIP telephone service.

A break-in occurred at an Outback Steakhouse in California and the restaurant's point-of-sale computer terminal was stolen.