Canada’s Desjardins Blames Employee for Leak of Personal Details of 2.9M Customers June 21, 2019 By Doug Alexander Desjardins Group, the largest financial co-operative in North America, said an “ill-intentioned” employee illegally exposed the personal information of some...
British Hacker Gets 4 Years in Jail for TalkTalk Data Breach June 12, 2019 By Jonathan Browning A British man who hacked TalkTalk Telecom Group Plc, blackmailed executives and offered to supply customer data has been jailed...
Title Insurer First American Says App Defect May Have Exposed Customer Data May 28, 2019 U.S. real estate title insurance company First American Financial Corp. said on Friday it had learned of a design defect...
University Of Alaska Reaching out to People Hit by Data Breach April 30, 2019 The University of Alaska is attempting to contact people who may have been affected by a computer data breach. The...
Motel 6 Pays $12 Million to Settle Suit Over Providing Guest Lists to U.S. Immigration April 5, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel Motel 6 agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit in which Washington state’s attorney general said the chain...
Oregon Confirms Data of 1.6M Residents Exposed in Breach March 27, 2019 The Oregon Department of Human Services says that a data breach may have exposed the personal information of the 1.6...
Illinois’ Rush Health System Says Data Breach May Affect 45,000 Patients March 6, 2019 Illinois-based Rush System for Health says personal information from about 45,000 patients may have been compromised in a data breach....
California Data Privacy Proposal Could Get Even Tougher February 25, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra The strongest data privacy law in the country may be about to get sharper teeth, and lobbyists representing the tech...
Data Mistake Exposed Names of 974,000 University of Washington Patients February 22, 2019 University of Washington Medicine says a website server inadvertently made internal files concerning nearly 1 million patients available on the...
Data Breach in Arizona Hits Restaurants, Hotels February 20, 2019 A data breach may have compromised the personal information of customers who patronized any of 50 Arizona businesses last month....