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Premera breach: Are HIPAA standards too low?

Here’s an interesting twist regarding the Premera data breach revealed last week: the company has been deemed compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and …

Twitch forces users to reset password in wake of breach

Twitch, the popular Amazon-owned game streaming service, has apparently suffered a breach that might have resulted in the compromise of users’ personal information and …

Personal, healthcare info of over 11M Premera customers compromised

US healthcare provider Premera Blue Cross has suffered a data breach that resulted in a potential compromise of personal, financial and health-related information of as many …

When it comes to patient data privacy, compliance and security differ

If a name perfectly underscored a growing issue of concern, it’s Anthem. In February, the health insurance plan provider disclosed cyber attackers had breached its IT …

Three indicted for breaching Email Service Providers, monetizing stolen data

Viet Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu, both citizens of Vietnam who resided for a period of time in the Netherlands, have been indicted on Friday for their role in a massive …

Anthem refuses comprehensive IT security audit after the breach

Recently breached US health insurer Anthem has refused to let The Office of Personnel Management’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) perform a full security audit of its …

Mandarin Oriental suffers credit card breach

Mandarin Oriental, the hotel group managing luxury hotels and resorts in Asia, Europe, the US and Latin America, has confirmed that “the credit card systems in an …

Uber’s on a hunt for the attacker that compromised its drivers’ database

Late last week, Uber’s Managing Counsel of Data Privacy Katherine Tassi has revealed that the company has suffered a data breach. One of its databases, which contains …

Anthem breach affects millions of non-Anthem customers

Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the United States, which has reported a massive data breach earlier this month, has finally come out with a more definite number …

Credit card info stolen in BigFish Games site compromise

Seattle-based casual gaming company Big Fish Games has has its site and personal and financial information of some of its users compromised in an attack that started on last …

Arabic cyber espionage group attacking high profile victims

Kaspersky Lab discovered Desert Falcons, a cyber-espionage group targeting high profile organizations and individuals from Middle Eastern countries. The list of targeted …

Carbanak cyber gang stole hundreds of millions from banks

Since late 2013, an international cyber criminal group has been targeting banks around the world and has made off with $300 million – possibly even more – by …

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