Data Security

Tens of thousands of job-seekers are at risk after a laptop belonging to a nonprofit employment agency was stolen.

The Federal Trade Commission is alleging that the hotel chain failed to implement basic security practices, which led to a number of costly data-leakage incidents.

The country's top derivatives regulator endured a phishing attack which led to the compromise of employee data.

At a gathering of security experts on Thursday in New York, panelists warned that while launching an offensive strike against cyber attackers might be a tempting response to being breached, there are better -- and legal -- strategies for retribution.

A thief broke into the cab of a pick-up truck parked at a hotel and made off with an iPod and two laptops, one of which contained personal data on 100,000 government workers.

For more than six years, the personal and medical data of hundreds of patients of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York was publicly available on the web.

ICANN is opening up the web to hundreds of more domains beyond the traditional .com and .net, but this week it failed to secure the personal information of applicants.

A now-defunct, third-party vendor for Primex, which provides insurance to schools and governments in New Hampshire, lost an external hard drive and backup tape containing the personal information of thousands of people.