Data Security

The U.S. Department of Energy is alerting some 14,000 current and past employees that personally identifiable information was accessed in a "cyber incident."

Hacktivists known for targeting media outlets upped their game last week when they leveraged a third-party service to deface three major websites.

Health information and Social Security numbers are among data that may have been compromised for faculty, staff and students in an Emory University data breach.

Tens of thousands of staffers and students may have had personal information compromised after an unauthorized person dodged network security and gained access to a Ferris State University database.

The council released a highlight of potential new requirements and guidance to the PCI Data Security Standard and Payment Application Data Security Standard, both due out in November.

Employees for and applicants to the linguist program of Virginia-based defense contractor Northrop Grumman may have had sensitive information compromised when a related database was accessed by an unauthorized party.

Boston Public School students had data compromised when an ID card vendor lost a flash drive containing the student information.

Dmitriy Smilianets, a 29-year-old Moscow native, will fight charges that he was involved in a massive card stealing cyber campaign since 2005.