Target Corp. is providing $5 million to help fund an effort to educate consumers about the risks of cybercrime. Meanwhile, a group of House Democrats had called for a hearing about the retailer's breach, while two senators have demanded details.
For the second time in a month, a major U.S. retail chain acknowledges being the victim of an external data breach. Other retailers also may have been struck by attackers, one expert says.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has introduced a national data breach notification bill for the fifth time, but its chances of passage remain slim.
Target now says personally identifiable information for up to 70 million of its customers was likely exposed in the December breach that also compromised some 40 million U.S. debit and credit cards.
The House of Representatives approved a bill Jan. 10 that would require notification of consumers within two days of discovery of breaches of data on Obamacare's health insurance exchanges.
Federal agencies audited by the Government Accountability Office showed inconsistent responses to computer breaches involving personally identifiable information.
As the elected auditor of public accounts in Kentucky, Adam Edelen is on a campaign of sorts to get the Bluegrass State to become the 47th state to enact a data breach notification law.
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Jan. 10 on two Republican bills addressing breach notification requirements and data security for Obamacare's HealthCare.gov website and health insurance exchanges.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services recently mailed almost 49,000 Medicaid ID cards to the wrong recipients, its second breach incident reported in recent months.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor plans to push new legislation aimed at bolstering the security of the HealthCare.gov website as part of a GOP call for "greater transparency" overall for Obamacare.
As a result of high-profile breaches, such as the Target incident, security is increasingly a board issue. What are the key topics security leaders should prepare to discuss in 2014? Alan Brill of Kroll offers his forecast.
The hacking of Skype's Twitter account, Facebook site and blog serves as a reminder that organizations must diligently protect their credentials, a cybersecurity expert says.
As a result of a settlement with the FTC tied to a 2011 health data breach, Accretive Health, a billing company, must take a series of security steps to better safeguard health information.
Breach detection provider FireEye has acquired incident response and remediation services company Mandiant , forming a formidable company that can provide soup-to-nuts products and services to detect, mitigate and respond to breaches.
Days after a German newspaper reported that the NSA had compromised commercial computer hardware and smart phones for years, the agency says it, too, is concerned about the security of those products.
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