Data breach News

Washington - Popular daily deals website LivingSocial announced a massive cyberattack on its database. It is estimated 50 million customers across the globe are affected.

A recently released report says in 2012 there was one new victim of identity theft every three seconds in the United States. The thefts accounted for billions of dollars.

Reports are surfacing today that a large number of Twitter users may have found they aren't able to access their accounts. The reason for this is that Twitter has reset the passwords for a "large number" of accounts.

Blizzard Entertainment has warned customers its internal network was breached. This exploit exposed user email addresses and the passwords (scrambled) of online gamers.

A massive data breach has occurred involving MasterCard and VISA cardholders. It is possible 10 million credit card holders may be impacted by this significant breach.

Data theft is becoming more common, and Zappos is the latest to report the breaching of accounts, twenty four million accounts.

Richmond - Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has announced the educational establishment has suffered an information security related incident.

Earlier this year Sony experienced one of the largest data breaches of all time, and now the company has announced their networks have been attacked again.

Healthcare really needs a wakeup call when it comes to security.