Breach

A former student, who previously pleaded guilty to hacking compromising university computers, is accused of downloading the unencrypted personal data of students on a thumb drive.

The sensitive information of several thousand individuals training to become Florida teachers was inadvertently made available online by a university that was handling the data.

Facebook was made aware of the glitch through its bug bounty program, where researchers receive monetary rewards for reporting flaws to the company.

After contacting Facebook and claiming he was allowed access to manage the page, a miscreant blocked previous administrators and littered the page with sexual and racist references.

The website for the city of Waukee in Iowa was defaced two days in a row by saboteurs.

Patients of the Veterans Affairs hospital in Fayetteville, N.C., may have had their personal information exposed after more than 1,000 personal records were improperly disposed of.

A new McAfee study released Monday said organizations are overwhelmed by Big Data, yet appear to be overvaluing their ability to detect data breaches.