IRS – Helping You Put Your Data at Risk
Everyone fears the Internal Revenue Service! But now it’s for a new reason. It seems using two applications they provide exposes taxpayers’ data to security breaches. The IRS deployed two critical...
View ArticleFAA Data Breach Exposes Records of 45,000
A recent breach reported by the Federal Aviation Administration has exposed the private data of about 45,000 employees, as a result of a hack in one of the FAA computer systems. The FAA has released a...
View ArticlePrivate data of 208,000 at risk after laptop theft
AvMed Health Plans is currently dealing with a prominent data breach after having two company laptops stolen from their corporate offices in Gainesville in early December. The theft could compromise...
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Montefiore Medical Center: two computer thefts expose well over 23,000...
Two recent thefts of desktop computers belonging to the Montefiore Medical Center lead to the exposure of sestive information on patients and students stored by Montefiore’s Finance Department and...
View ArticleMassive data breach discovered at Ohio State University
Personal information of more than 760,000 of the current and former Ohio State University students, faculty and staff was repeatedly compromised earlier this year by hackers who managed to access an...
View ArticleBritish local council gets fine for mishandling of data
The latest local authority to contravene the Data Protection Act after losing sensitive information is the Cambridgeshire County Council. According to the Information Commissioner’s Office, an...
View ArticleHard drive with private information of nearly 90,000 students missing
The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development issued a warning for school districts across the state announcing that a computer hard drive containing information on 90,000 students was...
View ArticleHealth Net lost personal data for 1.9 million current and former members
Personal data for 1.9 million current and former members of Health Net Inc. may have been compromised. An investigation of a security breech has been launched in Rancho, Cordova, at Health Net’s data...
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Spectrum Health Client Data Stolen With Hard Drive
Health systems company Spectrum has been the victim of a data breach affecting confidential health information of some of their clients. The breach was the result of an electronic device theft, the...
View ArticleSteam hit by hackers. Are all their 35 million user accounts breached?
Almost two weeks ago, we revealed the major changes that had happened this year in the major data breaches top of all times. 2011 was leading in what the number of high profile of breaches is...
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