Breach

U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied information from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez's laptop and then tried to hack into Commerce Department computers.

Three months after an unencrypted backup tape goes missing, 4.5 million Bank of New York Mellon customers are notified their identities may be at risk.

A new report on the security of the personal information of health care patients indicates that steps need to be taken and rules enforced.

The organization charged with directing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) announced the second version of the credit card protection guidelines is scheduled for an October release.

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Despite HIPAA privacy laws, data breaches are not only becoming more common within the medical community, hospitals and medical centers are slow to report the breaches to patients.

Financial institutions should be prepared to deal with security incidents involving physical facilities, network infrastructures, systems, applications, and most importantly, data, says Inno Eroraha, president of NetSecurity Corporation.

Foreign hackers have compromised cash register terminals at 11 Dave & Buster's restaurants around the United States. The scheme resulted in losses of some $600,000.