Data Security

After the public website of the Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was compromised in February, an investigation revealed the severity of the breach in April.

Name.com said it believed its encryption is sufficient enough to prevent the hackers from using any of the sensitive information that was stolen.

Mapco disclosed this week that hackers compromised its payment card processing systems to steal credit and debit card information belonging to an unknown number of customers.

The California Department of Public Health announced that the data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and medical information.

Sensitive information and encrypted passwords of customers were accessed, according to Reputation.com.

An intruder gained access to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams (NID) in January, according to a spokesman for the military command.

On Friday, the popular coupon site announced that hackers breached its servers.