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Majority of 2015 Healthcare Data Breaches are Due to IT Hacking

This past year saw over one million patient health files breached through nearly 258 large-scale healthcare data breaches. According to Redspin’s recent Breach Report 2015: Protected Health Information (PHI), 98 percent of those breaches were caused by an IT hacking incident.

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Encryption has it’s place but isn’t foolproof

Most encrypted data is unencrypted at some point in its lifecycle — and the bad guys are pretty good at finding the one window left open.

Last year, an uncovered Snowden document from the US National Intelligence Council warned that the slow deployment of encryption and other technologies is putting government and private computers at risk of cyber attacks. The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is estimated at over $400 billion. Encryption is viewed by many experts as the go-to security technology, but data breaches and other attacks continue to rise despite advances in encryption.

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Hacker plans to dump alleged details of 20,000 FBI, 9,000 DHS employees

A hacker, who wishes to remain anonymous, plans to dump the apparent names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers of over 20,000 supposed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees, as well as over 9,000 alleged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, Motherboard has learned.

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University of Central Florida data breach: 63,000 social security numbers compromised

The University of Central Florida said unauthorized access to its computer network has resulted in an unprecedented data breach of personal information of some current and former students and employees.

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Bridgewater Restaurant affected in massive credit card breach

Bridgewater, NJ — Locals who dined at Mcormick & Schmick’s in Bridgewater may be at risk for credit fraud.

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Get your privacy house in order, or 2016 will hit your business hard

Now that we’re firmly settled in the Age of the Customer, it’s time to take stock of the factors that are really going to drive business success — or failure — over the next few years. At Forrester, we’re betting our hats that privacy will be one a big one. In fact, we think that privacy is integral to each one of the 10 success factors in 2016.

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Education Ministry Security failings blamed for massive student data breach

B.C.’s Education Ministry failed to properly provide adequate security surrounding the personal information of 3.4 million students and teachers, an investigation by the province’s privacy commissioner has found.

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Centene data breach underscores escalating problem

Another health insurer is facing a major healthcare data breach. Centene Corp. says it is missing six computer hard disk drives that contain the health records of about 950,000 individuals.

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Data Loss at HMRC

If HMRC gets hacked, and its users’ data gets compromised, it could face compensation claims of more than £13 billion, a new report by digital authentication provider, MIRACL, suggests.

Wendy’s latest victim of data breach

The fast food chain Wendy’s (NASDAQ: WEN) is investigating reports of a possible breach of credit card data, making it among the latest victims of cyber criminals.

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