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U.S. hotel chain Hilton has reached a settlement with the states of New York and Vermont over the payment card breaches suffered by the company in 2014 and 2015. Hilton has agreed to pay $700,000...

Hotel Chain Waited 9 Months to Warn Customers After Discovering First BreachGlobal hotel chain Hilton has reached a $700,000 settlement agreement with New York and Vermont over two separate data...

Thirty percent of CEOs from the world's largest organizations have had their company email address and password stolen from a breached service. read more

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the last two years may have suffered as many as 54 data breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII), revealed a report...

Data From Reverb Nation, Bitly and Kickstarter Belatedly Surfaces; More ComingThe commenting platform Disqus is resetting passwords after discovering that its database was breached in 2012. The...

The results of a new Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) study on consumer perceptions and behaviors in response to identity theft and data breaches demonstrate widespread uncertainty among...

Hackers Say Humans Are the Weakpoint and That Traditional Defenses Cannot Protect Them read more

Analysis: What the Latest Breach Statistics MeanThe federal tally that lists major health data breaches has hit a new milestone: More than 2,000 breaches have been reported since September 2009....

Watch for These Clues, Says Cyber adAPT's Paul WhiteData breach truism: So many organizations get breached, and remain breached, but don't find out until months or even years later, says Paul...

More than 6 billion records were exposed as as result of the 2,227 data breaches that were reported in the first six months of 2017, according to a new report from Risk Based Security. read more