Data Security

An employee with Riverside Health System in Virginia was fired for inappropriately accessing the medical records of nearly 1,000 patients over the span of four years.

Around 3,600 residents of Washington state had personal information compromised after a temporary employee at a city court sent forms, background information and municipal court lists to her personal email.

Three senators have asked that a congressional hearing on consumer data security be held as soon as possible.

Nearly 3,500 members of the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool may have had personal information compromised after a password-protected laptop containing the sensitive data was stolen from an independent auditor's car.

The Briar Group confirmed that its systems were breached between October and November.

A payment processor that handles transactions for Target denied being impacted in an attack on the retail giant's point-of-sale devices.

An employee with a private contractor for Colorado Medicaid was fired after sending an email to a personal account that contained sensitive information on almost 2,000 people.