Data Security

An encrypted laptop and two unencrypted flash drives containing personal information on 5,000 patients were stolen from a Palomar Health employee.

About 550,000 customers, as well as employees, of Texas-based Spec's may have had personal information compromised in a malware attack that dates back to Oct. 31, 2012.

Sony and its insurer Zurich were embroiled in an immunity lawsuit for years.

Roughly 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside students are being notified that their personal information may have been compromised by hackers who installed malware on a server.

Legal experts say the settlement serves as a small win for plaintiffs, and a much bigger one for their attorneys.

University President Wallace Loh told Senate members that the attackers cloaked their activity by using the Tor network.

An attacker was able to gain unauthorized access to credentials for nearly 100,000 users of Android anti-theft app Cerberus.

Data on all employees of Utah-based Sorenson Communications, and a branch named CaptionCall, was compromised in an attack on an unnamed payroll vendor.