Email Mistake at Chicago Schools Underscores Employee Negligence Problem

An employee at Chicago Public Schools accidentally emailed sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to students to thousands of families earlier this month.

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Email Addresses of 92 Million Users Spilled in MyHeritage Breach

The genealogy site MyHeritage said Monday that it suffered a breach last year that exposed 92 million of its users emails and hashed passwords.

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Panera Bread Leaked Data on Millions of Customers for Months

A security researcher notified the restaurant last August it was leaking customers' data on its website in plain text.

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Orbitz Breach Exposes Customer Data, 880,000 Payment Cards

The breach, which occurred last fall, also leaked customer names, dates of birth, phone numbers, and email addresses.

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Senate Banking Bill Would Make Credit Freezes Free

The Senate is expected to approve a banking bill next week that includes a provision which would make credit report freezes free.

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Insiders Responsible for 58 Percent of Healthcare Breaches

58 percent of PHI data loss incidents from 2016 to 2017 involved internal actors according to Verizon's new Protected Health Information Data Breach Report.

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Point-of-Sale Breach Affects 160+ Applebee's Locations

A breach at one of Applebee's largest franchisees, RMH Franchise Holdings, affected over 160 restaurants late last year.

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Breach at Partner Impacts 800,000 Swisscom Customers

Data was compromised following a breach due to what Swisscom is calling a "misappropriation of a sales partner's access rights."

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Phishing Attack Compromises Data Belonging to 30K Florida Medicaid Patients

Information, including patients' date of birth, Social Security number, address, Medicaid ID, and diagnoses, may have been breached.

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Nissan Informing 1.3 Million Canadians of Potential Breach

Nissan said Thursday that information belonging to Canadian customers, like their names, addresses, and vehicle identification number, may have been breached.

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