Aug 20
A former employee's criminal activity resulted in the exposure of Tennessee Tech University employees' personal identifying information. Tennessee Tech has announced it will begin notifying 11,000 current and former employees of the breach.
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Aug 15
The Surgeons of Lake County had its computer network hacked by attackers with unusually malicious terms. Most hackers who successfully infiltrate systems attempt to do so unnoticed, but this group left a digital ransom note demanding payment.
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Aug 13
Battle.net, the system that gaming network Blizzard uses for authenticating users, had its internal systems hacked, exposing encrypted passwords and answers to security questions along with email addresses of players.
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Aug 9
The business networking site LinkedIn recently announced that they suffered one of the year’s worst data breaches, and have spent up to $1 million already in attempts to recover.
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Aug 7
Last Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency notified those who may have been impacted by a severe data security breach in March.
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Jul 31
This Thursday, Global Payments Inc. released a statement that a recent security breach will cost the company $84.4 million.
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Jul 23
This week Brigham Young University (BYU) is contacting several hundred former and present students to alert them of a data breach that occurred.
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Jul 17
Late last week 450,000 passwords were stolen in a Yahoo! data breach. The passwords were stored unencrypted, in plaintext, making them extremely easy to access.
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Jul 9
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced last month that a computer containing patient information was stolen from a physician’s home.
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Jul 2
Wyndham Worldwide, a hotel group, was charged by the Federal Trade Commission last week after it allowed three data breaches of its corporate data files.
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