Breach

More than a dozen patient records, including at least one celebrity, were accessed by employees at a Los Angeles hospital.

Stolen health insurance dossiers can earn their sellers more than a thousand dollars, a senior researcher at Dell SecureWorks reports.

Hundreds of thousands of patients potentially exposed after hospital records from Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth turn up in Dallas park.

Security researchers have found a way to exploit vulnerabilities in Verizon Wireless Network Extender units to spy on victims' cell phone usage. They are set to disclose details at the upcoming Black Hat and DefCon shows.

A study from the California's attorney general closely examines recent breaches in a state whose notification law is now a decade old.

Mapco Express suffered a credit card breach in March and April after hackers infected its systems with malware.

The Indianapolis-based health insurer must pay the Department of Health and Human Services $1.7 million to avoid heftier fines under HIPAA for its 137-day long breach ending in 2010.

The FTC says it wants businesses to improve data security for consumers, but two companies that were victims of data breaches believe the governing agency is overstepping its bounds.