Breach

Social security numbers were among the information on a backup hard drive that was stolen from an employee of Imhoff and Associates, PC.

Several financial institutions are reporting payment card fraud activity on credit and debit cards used at various Dairy Queen stores around the country, according to Brian Krebs.

About 900 customers at two OTTO pizzeria locations in Portland, Maine, had payment card data compromised after POS malware was discovered on terminals.

It is important to understand that there are various types of insider threats and that each one requires a different approach from an information security standpoint.

Personal information on more than 500 Cedars-Sinai Health System patients was compromised after a laptop was stolen from an employee's home.

The personal information of up to 25,000 government workers may be at risk after U.S. Investigations Services (USIS) was breached.

Up to seventy percent of the population aged between 15 and 65 might have had their names, resident registration numbers, account usernames and passwords stolen.

Of the 355 IT and security professionals surveyed, a majority indicated that they were ill-equipped to thwart a possible insider threat.