Security News

NJ AG Smacks Practice With Hefty Fine for Vendor Breach
2018-04-06 09:05

Settlement Spotlights Vendor Risks, Plus State Enforcement TrendsThe New Jersey state attorney general has smacked a medical practice with a $418,000 penalty for a 2016 HIPAA breach involving a...

Best Buy Hit by [24]7.ai Payment Card Breach
2018-04-06 05:43

After Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings, Best Buy has also come forward to warn customers that their payment card information may have been compromised as a result of a breach suffered by online...

Thousands of Sears, Delta customers affected by data breach
2018-04-05 22:01

A third-party vendor used by both companies announced that its system had been breached for two weeks starting in September 2017.

Delta, Sears Hit by Card Breach at Online Services Firm
2018-04-05 12:51

Delta Air Lines, Sears Holdings and likely other major companies have been hit by a payment card breach suffered last year by San Jose, CA-based online services provider [24]7.ai. In a brief...

Facebook Says 87 Million May be Affected by Data Breach
2018-04-04 20:15

Facebook said Wednesday personal data on as many as 87 million users was improperly shared with British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The new figure eclipses a previous estimate of 50...

LinkedIn Breach: Russian Suspect Extradited to US
2018-04-04 02:14

Czechs Extradite Suspect Also Charged With Hacking Dropbox and FormspringRussian national Yevgeniy Nikulin, 30, has been extradited to the U.S. from the Czech Republic to face charges that he...

Guilty Pleas in Criminal Insider Breach Case
2018-04-02 21:26

Paper Records Stolen From Hospital Storage UnitInsiders with access to paper records can pose a serious fraud threat, as recent guilty pleas in an Oklahoma healthcare case illustrate. Experts...

Saks, Lord & Taylor Stores Hit by Data Breach
2018-04-02 15:25

A data breach at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in North America exposed customer payment card data, parent company Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) announced on Sunday. The hack, which also...

Would Facebook and Cambridge Analytica be in Breach of GDPR?
2018-04-02 13:35

The Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Facebook accusations over the U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign, and to a lesser extent between CA and the UK's Brexit VoteLeave campaign, are -- if proven...

Saks, Lord & Taylor Suffer Payment Card Data Breach
2018-04-02 11:03

5 Million Payment Cards Apparently Stolen by the Carbanak Gang, aka JokerStashDepartment store chains Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord & Taylor have suffered a data breach that...