Breach

Almost 19,000 current and former Colorado state workers may have had personal information compromised after a worker lost an unencrypted thumb drive containing the data.

The 24-year-old graduate of the University of Michigan was not successful in his attack, but he paid hackers $6,000 to aid him.

Roughly 54 million Turkish citizens may have had personal information compromised by Russian hackers, according to a report.

The website for the Federal Election Commission (FEC), a government watchdog group that discloses campaign funding information, was adversely impacted for weeks.

More than 6,000 current and former employees, vendors and students of The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill are being notified that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is notifying more than 800,000 members that their personal information may have been compromised after two unencrypted laptops were stolen.

The Fairfax County Health Department in Virginia is sending notification letters to roughly 1,500 individuals after one of the county's health care clinics inadvertently left private pharmaceutical records on an unsecured computer server.

Swedish journalists were able to tie hateful online anonymous comments to politicians through a weakness found in an API services' cryptographic function.