Data breaches

Missing Microfiche Puts 700,000 At Risk of Identity Theft

May 15, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Confidential payroll data was stored on microfiche and sent through the mail. View Full Article »

Huge Financial Data Breach Hits UNC Charlotte

May 11, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

College of Engineering server data was exposed for more than a decade, university said. View Full Article »

Columbia University Employees' Info Exposed in Data Breach

April 30, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Programmer accidentally posted employees confidential info in January 2010. View Full Article »

What Identity Thieves Want From a Data Breach

April 25, 2012, Sue Marquette Poremba, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor

Name, address, birth date and credit-card number View Full Article »

Hackers Hit Nissan, Break Into Auto Company's Network

April 24, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Employees' hashed passwords sent to a remote server. View Full Article »

Website Leaks London Marathon Runners' Private Data

April 24, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Glitch exposed home and email address of every marathon participant. View Full Article »

State Employee Suspected of Stealing 228,000 Medical Records

April 23, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Cache of Social Security numbers and other confidential data was forwarded to at least one of Lykes' email contacts. View Full Article »

Tampon-Shaped Flash Drive Disguises Your Data

April 23, 2012, Paul Wagenseil, SecurityNewsDaily Managing Editor

Um, we'll let you hold on to that View Full Article »

Massive Hospital Data Breach Exposes 315,000 Records

April 20, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Stolen discs held names, Social Security numbers, addresses and patients' clinical information, including procedures and surgeon's names. View Full Article »

'Girls Around Me' App Not First to Track Women

April 12, 2012, Seán Captain, TechNewsDaily Managing Editor

Years before 'Girls Around Me' became infamous for women-tracking, a service called Assisted Serendipity did many of the same things. It's still up and running. View Full Article »

How You're Putting Your Company at Risk for a Data Breach

April 05, 2012, Sue Marquette Poremba, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor

Only you can prevent data breaches View Full Article »

Details Don't Add Up in Huge Credit-Card Data Breach

April 02, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Discrepancies in when the breach occurred spark doubt. View Full Article »

How to Safeguard Your Privacy During a Job Hunt

April 02, 2012, Sue Marquette Poremba, SecurityNewsDaily Contributor

Think your Facebook account is a privacy risk? Your resume is a bigger one. View Full Article »

10 Million Visa, MasterCard Numbers Breached, Blog Reports

March 30, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Breach of as many as 10 million card numbers ocured at unnamed U.S. credit-card processor occurred between January 21 and Feb. 25, according to a report. View Full Article »

Server Error Exposes Thousands of University of Tampa Students

March 20, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Nearly 30,000 students potentially affected by "server error." View Full Article »

Hackers Expose Ancestry.com Security Hole

March 14, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

'TeamHav0k' claim they're warning company to patch its systems. View Full Article »

Hackers Breach Porn Site, Give Away Videos

March 09, 2012, Paul Wagenseil, SecurityNewsDaily Managing Editor

1337 + XXX = EPIC FAIL View Full Article »

Jacko Hacko? Hackers May Have Stolen Michael Jackson Tracks

March 05, 2012, Paul Wagenseil, SecurityNewsDaily Managing Editor

It's bad, dangerous and off the wall. View Full Article »

WikiLeaks Reveals 5 Million Emails from Intelligence Firm

February 27, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

Stratfor says it will not validate the emails or answer any questions. View Full Article »

Hackers Hit Los Angeles Police Canine Group

February 21, 2012, by Matt Liebowitz, SecurityNewsDaily Staff Writer

'CabinCr3w' hackers claim to have found 'questionable' material in the email account of a Los Angeles-area police officer, but the images are actually pretty harmless. View Full Article »