Data Breach

A data breach is the intentional or unintentional release of secure or private/confidential information to an untrusted environment.

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Identity Takes Center Stage As Healthcare Goes Digital
Identity Takes Center Stage As Healthcare Goes Digital
June 20, 2019  |  Authentication

Complaints about healthcare will never cease. After all, the industry is one where illness combines with significant bills and payments, two things that are pretty...

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GAO: Post-Equifax, Agencies Must Tighten Online ID Proofing
GAO: Post-Equifax, Agencies Must Tighten Online ID Proofing
June 17, 2019  |  Safety and Security

After the massive Equifax data breach, a federal watchdog is warning the government against relying on credit agencies to verify the identifies of individuals using...

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Lawmakers Hit A Wall In Creating National Privacy Law
Lawmakers Hit A Wall In Creating National Privacy Law
June 11, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Efforts from lawmakers in the U.S. to come up with a national privacy law have hit a wall, with Senators unable to agree on how...

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Will The 2020s Be The Digital Trust Decade?
Will The 2020s Be The Digital Trust Decade?
June 10, 2019  |  Digital Payments

With summer upon us, it might have escaped notice that the decade of the 2010s is about to end. We don’t mean to get nostalgic...

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IT Giant Tech Data Left Personal Customer Information Unsecured
IT Giant Tech Data Left Personal Customer Information Unsecured
June 06, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Fortune 500 company Tech Data left a server with access to customer and billing data unsecured, and it was compromised by security researchers, according to...

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LabCorp Says 7.7M Customers May Have Been Impacted By AMCA Breach
LabCorp Says 7.7M Customers May Have Been Impacted By AMCA Breach
June 05, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

LabCorp, the medical testing company, disclosed Wednesday (June 5) that 7.7 million customers may have been impacted by the data breach that affected Quest Diagnostics...

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Millions Of Health Records Compromised In Quest Hack
Millions Of Health Records Compromised In Quest Hack
June 03, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Patient records numbering around 11.9 million were compromised and exposed in a data breach of an agency that collects money for Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth...

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US Judge: Facebook May Have Improperly Handled Data Breaches
US Judge: Facebook May Have Improperly Handled Data Breaches
May 31, 2019  |  Legal

Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of the Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that there’s a “credible basis” to infer that Facebook may have committed malfeasance in...

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First American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach
First American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach
May 30, 2019  |  Legal

First American Financial Corp., the title insurance company that exposed the data on hundreds of millions of mortgages dating as far back as 2003, is...

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