Data Security

The free web hosting site 000webhost.com informed customers yesterday that one of its servers was hacked compromising its entire data base of about 13.5 million clients.

Yellowfront Grocery in Damariscotta, Maine, notified its customers via Facebook that it had experienced a POS breach.

Ellen Conlin Hair & Beauty, a Scottish chain of hair salons owned by the husband-wife team Ellen Conlin-Main and Ken Main, reportedly paid hackers € 1,000 in Bitcoin to recover the salon's data.

The suspected Chinese hack of health insurer Anthem may have had more to do with that nation's leaders being interested in learning how to provide healthcare for its population than stealing data.

An encrypted company laptop containing the information was stolen from a Schlage employee's vehicle at an offsite location.

Experian breach is more than just another hack as cross referencing of data sets opens up even more scope for ciminal activity says Max Vetter

Two U.S. Army captains are pushing for their service, the Department of Defense and the federal government to adopt practices currently used by the private sector to help protect sensitive data.