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Small healthcare facilities unprepared for a data breach

While healthcare breaches are on the rise, most small facilities feel that their systems adequately limit the risk of a data breach despite one in three facilities spending …

Personal info of 850k Oregon jobseekers potentially compromised

851,322 individuals who used Oregon Employment Department’s WorkSource Oregon Management Information System (WOMIS) will soon be receiving notices that they information …

Kmart confirms month-old data breach, payment card data stolen

First via a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and then via a press release, Sears Holding Corporation has confirmed a month-old breach that affected POS …

The number of JPMorgan hackers’ targets rises

The distressing news that the JPMorgan Chase breach resulted in the compromise of data of some 76 million households and 7 million small businesses may be soon followed by …

Backoff POS malware found at nearly 400 Dairy Queen locations

POS systems at nearly 400 franchises of the International Dairy Queen fast food chain have been infected with Backoff malware, the company has reported on Thursday. The …

Privacy breaches in Europe

Half of all the privacy breaches affecting people in Europe are inside jobs according to new research from Central European University. The findings come from a report …

AT&T suffers another insider breach

US telecom AT&T has lately been having problems with malicious insiders, and the latest incident has resulted in the compromise of account and personal information of a …

How consumers foot the bill for data breaches

Data breaches are almost always expensive and somebody always ends up paying those expenses somewhere down the line. Either because they were affected directly and have no one …

JPMorgan Chase breach confirmed, 83 million customers affected

A filing made by JPMorgan Chase with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday has finally confirmed that the biggest bank in the US has suffered a data breach. …

California toughens breach notification law

California Governor Edmund Brown has signed on Tuesday new legislation that will strengthen privacy and consumer protections in the state. The new set of bills will, among …

PoS vendor confirms Jimmy John’s breach was their fault

Signature Systems, the PoS system vendor that has been named as the likely point of origin of the Jimmy John’s payment data breach, has confirmed that the attacker(s) …

216 Jimmy John’s stores affected in data breach

Popular US franchised sandwich restaurant chain Jimmy John’s has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach that affected approximately 216 of its stores all over the …

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