Data Security

Instead of calculating the costs of technology or staffing, consider this—how much will an attack cost the company if its network is not adequately protected?

The second U.S. LulzSec hacker implicated in the 2011 attack against Sony Pictures has been sentenced to a year in jail, but also faces another year of house arrest and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.

A Florida-based online retailer of smartphone accessories was the victim of a hack that compromised customer card information.

Emailing protected health information (PHI) to a personal email address cost one Rocky Mountain Spine Clinic employee her job last week.

A California-based medical group experienced a data breach when a laptop containing sensitive patient information was stolen.

US Airways reported Aug. 2 that an unauthorized user gained access to a small number of Dividend Miles accounts. It was the second reported breach in under a month for the airline.

More than 72,000 employees of the University of Delaware had personal information compromised in an attack that was attributable to a vulnerability in software from a third-party.