2015 Midyear Review: The Biggest Data Breaches Year to Date

2015 has been full of data breaches thus far, and it seems that personal and health records are attackers’ top targets. With the first half of 2015 in the books, let’s take a look back at some of the biggest and most impactful data breaches that have occurred.

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Ashley Madison: The Information Economy’s Love Canal?

The hack of married person “hookup” site Ashley Madison is just the latest evidence that we need to reconsider the rewards and the risks of data in our information economy.

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ATF Official Caught Leaking Employee Data

CNN reports that an executive at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was sending personnel data to a personal email account.

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EHR Vendors: The Next Target for Healthcare Hackers?

Hackers have already put hospital networks and insurers on notice that they’re interested in the health data they protect. Electronic health record vendors may be next.

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Are Data Breaches A Victimless Crime?

Home improvement giant Home Depot is asking a court to dismiss a class action lawsuit against it stemming from a massive theft of credit card numbers from its corporate network last year. The argument: no harm was done as a result of the breach.

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Rich Data, Poor Security Link Hacks at OPM, Anthem

What does the Office of Personnel Management have in common with healthcare firms like Anthem and Premera? More than you think.

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Groupwn: Australian Grocery Woolworths Leaks $1m In Coupons

The Australian grocery giant Woolworths is the latest firm faced with an embarrassing leak of customer data and fraud – this one self-inflicted.

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Infographic: Is Security Spending Proportional to the Data Breach Problem?

Einstein famously defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." So why do companies continue to follow the same archaic security strategies while data breaches are at an all-time high?

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Buying A Breach: Pacnet’s Dirty Little Secret

When the Australian telco Telstra purchased Pacnet for US$697 million earlier this year, the idea was to expand its reach in Asia. Instead, it ended up buying a controlling stake in a massive data breach.

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Sally Beauty: When one Breach Begets Another

The beauty supply store acknowledged today that it was the victim of yet another data breach – the second in as many years. But where does one incident end and another begin?

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