The bank came clean this week, admitting that data stolen by a former IT specialist exposed a lot more clients to possible identity theft than it previously suspected.
Tags: security, data breach, identity theft, database security, HSBC

More than 35,000 Arkansas National Guard soldiers are learning that their names, social security numbers and other personal data are at risk after an external hard drive vanished.
Tags: Storage, data breach, identity theft, military, Arkansas National Guard

New research from the Ponemon Institute and Compuware details sloppy data practices that pervade the financial services sector and outlines the potential consequences of a breach.
Tags: privacy, data security, data breach, financial services, Ponemon

The follow-up process has already cost more than $7 million.
Tags: data, data breach, identity theft, breach, BlueCross BlueShield

The department is starting to display reports of breaches as required by the HITECH Act.
Tags: healthcare, data breach, breaches, HIPAA, data breaches

The IT department at Valdosta State University discovered that a hacker managed to breach a school server storing the personal information of more than 170,000 students and faculty.
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Millions of confidential documents may have been accessed.
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More than 27,000 people had their names, Social Security numbers, and in some cases, bank account information, compromised when Ceridian's online service was breached.
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More than 4,000 patients' personal information was compromised after a laptop was stolen from an employee of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) medical school.
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A hard drive with data including the personal information of more than 250,000 people has gone missing from the National Archives and Records Administration.
Tags: security, data breach, hard drive, Clinton, National Archives

The company will pay Visa credit and debit card issuers up to $60 million.
Tags: data, data breach, Heartland, credit card, credit cards

More than 30,000 students are now receiving notifications that a hacker or hackers had breached three separate computers, exposing their personal information.
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North Carolina community colleges fess up to security breach that exposed Social Security and driver's license numbers of more than 51,000 people
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Acting head of agency tells lawmakers that extent of breach was minimal and a thorough security review is well underway.
Tags: TSA, data breach, Obama, homeland security, Erroll Southers

With no actual harm having been done, the judge said no damages could be sought.
Tags: consumer, data, class action, data breach, law

Inside job almost impossible to prevent, especially when suspect has legitimate access to data.
Tags: security, IT, hackers, data loss, data breach