Data Security

More than 1,400 medical records were compromised after unauthorized access was gained to the health records system used by a Texas cardiology clinic.

An engineer, who was contracted to work for the University of Maryland, says that his goal was to spur action at the school.

A website security breach resulted in a compromise of data - including Social Security numbers - for thousands who applied for government jobs in Bibb County.

Introduced Tuesday, the Digital Privacy Act includes stiff penalties for organizations that fail to adequately respond to breaches.

Efforts are now reportedly underway in Iowa and North Carolina as part of a multistate probe.

Roughly 80,000 Deltek customers may have information at risk, including payment card data for 25,000 of them, after an attacker hacked into Deltek's GovWin IQ system.

Targeted attacks grew by 91 percent and lasted three times longer, according to a recent threat report.

The court battle began when the FTC filed a 2012 complaint against hotelier Wyndham, accusing it of deceptive and unfair practices against consumers following data breaches.