Data Security

More than 1,000 patients were affected by the breach after a hospital employee, as part of a routine update, accidentally exposed the information.

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a research firm the advises clients on voting in proxy fights, must pay $300,000 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In the state of Maine alone, more than 22,000 Vendini customers were impacted.

Edwin Vargas, 42, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly buying email login credentials and cracking fellow officers' email accounts.

Attackers who raided Google in 2010 to learn information about Chinese human rights activists were also trying to gain insight on which Chinese intelligence agents were on the radar of U.S. authorities, according to a report.

The new legislation would amend the definition of "personal information" under the state's breach notification law.

Everyone is familiar with health, flood, car and life insurance, but what happens when the digital equivalent of a disaster strikes? Some entities may want this peace of mind, but in today's threat and regulatory landscape, it's not always that simple.