Data Security

A breach at the Department of Education could be more devastating than the one experienced by OPM, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said last week at a Brookings Institute function.

A former director of baseball development for the St. Louis Cardinals pleaded guilty to charges of accessing computers belonging to the Houston Astros without authorization.

Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital reported the loss of an unencrypted USB drives containing information on 29,000 emergency room patients.

A Turkish criminal court sentenced a 26-year-old Onur Kopcak to 135 years in prison on Sunday for stealing 11 consumers' credit card information and selling it on the black market.

Unveiling a porfolio of new devices at CES as part of its Wireless Monitoring System, VTech claimed it's tightened security to better protect customers' personal data.

A federal court judge said plaintiffs didn't show harm after a 2014 data breach at Michaels Stores Inc.

U.S. House Small Business Committee met to discuss several areas of mismanagement at the Small Business Administration (SBA).

Time Warner Cable (TWC) is blaming a phishing attack conducted on one of its vendors for a data breach that may have resulted in 320,000 TWC customer emails and other personal information being stolen.