Data Security

A former employee with Western Regional Center for Brain & Spine Surgery allegedly stole data and used it for fraudulent purposes, and is now the subject of a law enforcement investigation.

Payment cards may have been compromised for anyone who made a purchase on the Wireless Emporium website between Dec. 24, 2013, and Jan. 19.

The massive data breach of Minneapolis-based Target may end up costing the company $148 million.

Early in July, TotalBank began notifying a reported 72,500 customers that an unauthorized individual obtained access to the TotalBank computer network and, possibly, their information.

The company elaborated on it June breach and said that 33 of its locations around the U.S. were affected.

The script for a data sanitization process on the Mozilla Developer Network failed and the email addresses and passwords of thousands of users was publicly accessible.

A breach at the National Research Council didn't compromise data on broader government networks, Canada's CIO said.