In September retailer Home Depot announced a large-scale breach of customer credit-card data, affecting as many as 56 million consumers. The attack bears strong similarities to the theft of customer data Target suffered late last year,…
In the wake of revelations from major retailer Target that hackers compromised its point-of-sale systems and stole credit card information on tens of millions of its customers during a two-to-three week period in the busy holiday…
The Department of Defense’s TRICARE program disclosed last week that backup tapes containing medical records on nearly 5 million active-duty and retired military personnel and their dependents were stolen from the car of a contractor who…
In its Monthly Report to Congress On Data Incidents for the month of September (the exact time period noted on the report is August 30 – October 3, 2010), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) describes…
With just over a year having passed since the health data breach notification rules mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act went into effect, and interesting contrast has emerged between…
In response to a request from Congressmen Henry Waxman, Joe Barton, and Edward Markey to Google CEO Eric Schmidt seeking information about the collection of wireless network traffic by the company during the operation of its…
A recent ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest in a series of cases where individuals whose personal information was involved in a data breach were unable to successfully pursuit causes of…
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