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Data Breach Affects 33 PF Chang’s Restaurants

P.F. Chang’s is providing more details on its ongoing investigation into a security breach, saying data may have been stolen from certain credit and debit cards used at 33 P.F. Chang’s China Bistro restaurants in the U.S. P.F. Chang’s confirmed …

Rhode Island Hospital to Pay State $150,000 for Lost Data, Records

A Rhode Island hospital has agreed to pay $150,000 in Massachusetts after losing backup tapes that contained the personal information of more than 12,000 Massachusetts residents. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced the agreement with Women and Infants Hospital in …

Indiana College Warns Staff, Students of Data Breach

Butler University officials are warning more than 160,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni that hackers may have accessed their personal information. The Indianapolis school learned about the data breach when California officials contacted them last month to inform them that …

Online Medical Records Increase Privacy Risks in South Dakota

Every year, thousands of small claims and civil court cases are filed in South Dakota to collect medical debts. Many of those cases contain an itemized list of the medical procedures for which a hospital, doctor or clinic is seeking …

Connecticut Health Insurance Vendor Says Ill Will Not Behind Data Breach

The vendor operating Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace call center took responsibility Monday for an employee leaving behind a backpack containing personal information of hundreds of clients outside a downtown Hartford deli, saying it was an inadvertent mistake and the worker …

Report Blames Outside Software for Oregon Computer Breach

A piece of third-party software that hadn’t been updated might have been the vulnerable point invaded by hackers of the Oregon secretary of state’s website, a state report found. The February breach took election and business records offline for nearly …

Hackers Access 145M EBay Records

EBay Inc said that hackers raided its network three months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised. …

Florida Firm Denies Link to UPMC Data Breach

A University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employee has sued the hospital network for credit restoration services and identity theft insurance in the wake of a data breach that has seen hackers use the personal information of hundreds of employees to …

Top Risks for Businesses Expanding Overseas

As U.S. and Canadian businesses plan to expand their business overseas this year, their executives are worried about supply chain failures, data breaches and political instability, according to a survey by the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. The 2014 Chubb …

Deciphering the Cybersecurity Framework

Reading the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s “Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” is like being trapped in a nonstop risk management meeting. Within the Framework, organizations “dynamically select” improvements, functions “align with existing methodologies for incident management,” and …