Breach

A medical clinic worker was fired after stealing an external drive containing personal medical information on thousands of patients.

Even after a hacker posted Twitter account information for thousands of users, officials with Twitter have confirmed that no accounts have been impacted.

Liberty Mutual, the insurer for St. Louis-based Schnucks, said the supermarket chain's general liability policy wasn't designed to absorb costs associated with data breach lawsuits and related claims.

The U.S. Department of Energy is alerting some 14,000 current and past employees that personally identifiable information was accessed in a "cyber incident."

Hacktivists known for targeting media outlets upped their game last week when they leveraged a third-party service to deface three major websites.

Health information and Social Security numbers are among data that may have been compromised for faculty, staff and students in an Emory University data breach.

Tens of thousands of staffers and students may have had personal information compromised after an unauthorized person dodged network security and gained access to a Ferris State University database.

The council released a highlight of potential new requirements and guidance to the PCI Data Security Standard and Payment Application Data Security Standard, both due out in November.