Breach

IntelCrawler concluded on Sunday that 23-year-old Rinat Shibaev - not 17-year-old Sergey Taraspov, as the company previously reported - is the writer of the malware that infected Target's point-of-sale systems.

At the border of U.S. and Mexico, two individuals were arrested in connection with the late-2013 Target breach.

Malware discovered on vendor servers may have led to the compromise of personal information, including payment cards, for anyone who shopped on the Easton-Bell Sports website in December 2013.

The Department of Veterans Affairs eBenefits website experienced a software defect that possibly resulted in a compromise of medical and financial information.

Target, as well as law enforcement officials and other witnesses, will testify in front of the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade subcommittee in the first week of February to discuss data breaches and their effect on consumers.

The information - including payment card data - of more than 4,000 individuals was inappropriately accessed after malware was introduced into the computer systems of Ohio-based Edgepark Medical Supplies.

A class-action complaint was filed against Neiman Marcus in the Eastern District of New York on Monday, just days after the major retailer announced that an undisclosed number of payment cards may have been stolen in a breach.

An undisclosed number of Loudoun County Public Schools students and staffers in Virginia may have had personal information compromised after their data was accidentally posted publicly online.