Breach

Roughly 38,000 members of Minnesota-based HealthPartners may have personal information at risk after an employee brought home electronic files containing the data.

The second attack affected only one university staff member's personal information.

Over a four-week span, an unidentified hacker could have accessed a compromised Auburn University College of Business server that contained personal information on close to 14,000 current and former students, faculty and staff.

About 200,000 Mt. Gox Bitcoins have been recovered in an obsolete old-format wallet, bringing the total amount of the virtual currency allegedly pilfered down to 650,000 Bitcoins.

A study by IDC and the National University of Singapore also found a close link between pirated software and cyber security breaches.

The personal information of 20,000 U.S. Internal Revenue Service workers may be at risk after an employee took home a thumb drive that contained the unencrypted data and plugged it into an unsecured home network.

A file containing personal information on almost 9,000 patients of HealthSource of Ohio was viewed 47 times in the roughly five-week span it was inadvertently made available on the internet.