Breach

The company responsible for ensuring that users reach the website they intend to reach admitted in an SEC filing that its network was breached numerous times in 2010.

Malware may have allowed attackers to make off with the personal information of thousands of people connected to Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital.

Organizations are working overtime to design ways to control, via policy and technology, employees' penchant for sharing private information across social networking and mobile devices.

Data protection laws can be more effective if simpler, says JAS Global Advisors' Jeff Schmidt.

A laptop containing personal information of patients was stolen from the neurology department of Lexington Clinic on the night of Dec. 7, 2011.

The largest class-action settlement in Hawaii's history is related to data breaches at University of Hawaii campuses.

Unauthorized individuals gained access to the personal data belonging to customers of New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas & Electric (RG&E), which are owned by Iberdrola USA.