6 Worst Data Breaches Of 2011

Historically speaking, these 2011 data breaches rate among the biggest or most significant data-loss incidents to date. Source: InformationWeek

Digital Data on Patients Raises Risk of Breaches

As part of the 2009 stimulus bill, the federal government provides incentive payments to doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic health records. An unintended consequence is that as patient records have been digitized, health data breaches have surged. Source: The New York Times

Five Big Database Breaches Of 2011's Second Half

Healthcare breaches dominate since the summer, with plenty of lessons learned. From: Dark Reading

Risky business: 70% of young employees ignore IT security policies

A disturbing 70% of young employees said they often ignore the company’s IT security policies, according to a survey sponsored by Cisco. From: Infosecurity (USA)

Second Annual Patient Privacy Study Released

Widespread use of mobile devices is putting patient data at risk, according to the latest Ponemon Institute research on healthcare providers' patient privacy practices. From: Ponemon Institute

Data Breach: Alan M. Casson & Associates

Two unencrypted laptops and back up media containing info on 8,000 patients stolen during office burglary. From: DatalossDB

Fragmented encryption deployment increases firms' risks

While more companies are deploying encryption to secure data, this deployment is fragmented, creating greater risk for organizations, according to a survey by Symantec. From: Infosecurity (USA)

Healthcare Data In Critical Condition

New study shows data breaches up and costing healthcare industry billions of dollars a year, with employees, mobile devices the weakest links. From: Dark Reading

Medical data breaches soar, according to study

Data breaches in healthcare organizations are rising more than 30 percent year over year, with most organizations stating they've been breached in the past year. From: CSOonline

Data Breach - College of New Jersey

Vulnerability in Campus Student Employment System may have exposed 12,815 student job applicants' information. From: DataLossDB

RockYou Lawsuit Settlement Leaves Question Marks On Breach Liability

Settlement is small, but legal experts say case might pave way for more lawsuits against breached companies. From: Dark Reading

Sutter Health loses computer, data on 4.2 million

Northern California-based Sutter Health is the second major health care organization to fall victim to a major breach of unencrypted data. From: SC Magazine

Spreadsheet containing name, address, phone number, email address, major, level, class, college, student ID number, and GPA of 19,276 students accessible on the Internet

University of Texas - Pan American (UTPA) data loss incident circa 2011-11-11. From: DataLossDB

Breach Of University Server Threatens Personal Data Of More Than 175,000

Attackers at VCU use one server to launch an attack on a second server containing sensitive info. From: Dark Reading

Network insecurity a growing concern among IT professionals

A full 66% of IT professionals reported that their networks were less secure than the previous year, according to a Lumension-sponsored annual survey by Ponemon. From: Infosecurity (USA)

Adidas Takes Websites Offline Following Security Breach

Hackers claim to have acquired and posted 500,000 email addresses and clear-text passwords.

From: Dark Reading

Data breach notification bill stalls in Senate

A national data breach notification bill introduced by Sens. John D. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) has stalled in the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.

From: Infosecurity (USA)

Most healthcare organizations increased information security spending last year

More than half of healthcare organizations have increased information security spending over the last year, according to a survey by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

From: Infosecurity (USA)

Study finds many turn to lawsuits following a data breach

More than half of American consumers would sue a company that loses its personal information, according to a survey released Wednesday by IT firm Unisys.
From: SC Magazine

Productivity, Data Losses Biggest Cost In Cyberattacks

Global survey finds attacks on DNS, network-layer denial-of-service attacks most frequent and toughest to stop.

From: Dark Reading

72% of firms see increasing external information security threats, says Ernst & Young

A full 72% of organizations see an increasing level of information security risk due to greater external threats, according to a survey by accounting firm Ernst & Young.

From: InfoSecurity (USA)

More than a third of US companies are not prepared to fend off APTs

More than one-third of US companies are poorly prepared for advanced persistent threats (APT), according to a report by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

From: Infosecurity (USA)