Blizzard Entertainment’s newly launched Diablo III video game was hacked within a few days of its launch, and servers in Europe were taken offline for four hours on Sunday.
22 May 2012
The University of Maine has admitted to a server breach that may have exposed personal information, including social security and credit card numbers, on around 3,825 individuals.
21 May 2012
Sensitive information about British Army snipers was found in the trunk of a used car, according to press reports.
21 May 2012
We have known for many years that the EU is not happy with the UK’s implementation of the Data Protection Directive – what we haven’t known is why. This may now change thanks to the persistence of Amberhawk Training Ltd.
18 May 2012
A UK council is objecting to a 70,000-pound fine levied by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for losing sensitive data as the result of a theft at an employee’s home.
17 May 2012
More than one-third of organizations surveyed reported suffering at least one breach in the last 24 months that resulted in critical information being stolen, according to a survey conducted by IANS and sponsored by network security firm Fidelis Security Systems.
16 May 2012
Utah Governor Gary Herbert has fired the director of the state’s Department of Technology Services (DTS) over a breach that exposed healthcare records of 780,000 Utah Medicaid recipients.
16 May 2012
Losses from internet crime reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) totaled $485.3 million in 2011 and the number of complaints increased 3.4% last year compared to 2010.
15 May 2012
Officials with York County, South Carolina, took nine months to notify close to 17,000 job applicants and vendors that their social security numbers were exposed by an intrusion into a web application server.
14 May 2012
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it plans to reopen the application process for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) on May 22 after a software glitch that may have compromised applicant confidentiality forced the group to stop accepting applications.
11 May 2012