Breach

Let's face it: Breaches are going to happen. As a result, detection and incident response may actually be more important than prevention.

Hackers, believed to be from China, gained access to an Iowa government database, which contained the personal information of current and former employees of Iowa's casino and racing industries.

A laptop containing sensitive patient information was recently stolen from an employee of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.

A new Ponemon Institute study found that the number of data breaches caused by malicious attacks and botnets doubled last year, compared to 2008.

Stolen computer hard drives belonging to BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee contained sensitive member information.

Lincoln National Corp. (LNC), a Radnor, Pa.-based financial services organization, revealed early this month that a vulnerability in its portfolio information system could have caused the personal records of more than one million individuals to be inappropriately accessed.

The Connecticut attorney general, using new authority granted under the HITECH Act, is suing a managed health care provider over a data breach that potentially exposed the personal data of 446,000 state residents.

An external drive, containing the personal information of thousands of Kaiser Permanente Northern California patents, was recently stolen from an employee's car.