Breach

Officials with the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League have confirmed that although about 175,000 email addresses and account passwords were accessed in a hack, only 50,000 accounts are still active.

After a leak resulted in the data of 4.6 million users ending up online, photo messaging service Snapchat has issued a public response to the incident.

A group took advantage of an exploit in Snapchat that allowed them to steal a database of 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers, which they then posted to a website that has since been suspended.

An employee with Riverside Health System in Virginia was fired for inappropriately accessing the medical records of nearly 1,000 patients over the span of four years.

Around 3,600 residents of Washington state had personal information compromised after a temporary employee at a city court sent forms, background information and municipal court lists to her personal email.

Three senators have asked that a congressional hearing on consumer data security be held as soon as possible.

Nearly 3,500 members of the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool may have had personal information compromised after a password-protected laptop containing the sensitive data was stolen from an independent auditor's car.