Breach

Around 3,600 residents of Washington state had personal information compromised after a temporary employee at a city court sent forms, background information and municipal court lists to her personal email.

Three senators have asked that a congressional hearing on consumer data security be held as soon as possible.

Nearly 3,500 members of the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool may have had personal information compromised after a password-protected laptop containing the sensitive data was stolen from an independent auditor's car.

The Briar Group confirmed that its systems were breached between October and November.

A payment processor that handles transactions for Target denied being impacted in an attack on the retail giant's point-of-sale devices.

An employee with a private contractor for Colorado Medicaid was fired after sending an email to a personal account that contained sensitive information on almost 2,000 people.

Having denied that customer PINs were impacted in the breach, officials with Target have now confirmed that phishing communications have begun making the rounds.

An undisclosed number of individuals may have had personal information compromised after a secured California Employment Development Department facility was broken into and computers were stolen.