data theft

29 malicious Android apps whose goal is to steal personal and contact information have been discovered over the weekend on the official Google Play market. According to …

Hacktivists, criminals, nation states, malicious or careless insiders – all these are fueling the need for data protection and risk management within enterprises. The …

Social Security numbers of some 280,000 Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Plans users and “less sensitive” information on 500,000 more of them has …

Renowned security firm Sophos has taken down one of its partner portals (located at ) following the discovery of a compromise of the server on which it’s hosted. …

A massive breach of the processing system of Atlanta-based Global Payments has been confirmed by the company. “The company believes that the affected portion of its …

Indian call center employees sell confidential data belonging to users for as little as $0.03, reports the Daily Mail. According to the news outlet, reporters from The Sunday …

Negligent insiders are the top cause of data breaches while malicious attacks are 25 percent more costly than other types, according to the Ponemon Institute. The study also …

90% of Americans believe people remove confidential documents from the workplace, even though most adults (79%) say taking confidential files outside the office is grounds for …

When sensitive data of nearly 5 million TRICARE patients was compromised last September due to the theft of backup tapes from an employee’s car, the company quickly …

In a year highlighted by the biggest data security breaches on record, the higher education vertical appears to have had a reprieve relative to prior years in terms of overall …

Concerns about data security and privacy are impacting what people buy and which companies they do business with, according to a new Edelman study. Data security and privacy …

Employee negligence or maliciousness is the root cause of many data breaches, according to the Ponemon Institute. Over 78 percent of respondents blame employee behaviors, both …