A Wausau, Wis., bank and a Fitchburg man have filed a class-action lawsuit against Target Corp. over last year’s massive security breach. Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states, but this is the first of its kind to be …
The Illinois Attorney General’s office says the number of identity theft complaints received by her office climbed 18 percent last year. Lisa Madigan says her office received about 3,000 complaints in 2013, up from about 2,500 the year before. They …
Wisconsin’s Unity health insurance says a portable hard drive containing health information for about 41,000 people has been missing for seven weeks. The insurance company said it was offering identity theft protection to the 41,437 policy holders affected. Unity says …
Michaels Stores says it is investigating a possible company data security breach that may have affected its customers’ payment card information. The Irving, Texas, company said it launched the probe after learning of possible fraudulent activity on some U.S. payment …
Fighting online data fraudsters is almost impossible as their ability to hack into new technology often outpaces companies’ efforts to protect it, senior businessmen and bankers gathering for the World Economic Forum (WEF) said. The mammoth data breach at U.S. …
Two Mexican citizens who were arrested at the border used account information stolen during the Target security breach to buy tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise, according to a South Texas police chief. But a spokesman for the …
The futuristic world of self-driving cars, eyeglasses that e-mail and trash cans that call for pickup is running into the old-fashioned pace of doing business in Washington. Companies from Google Inc. to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG are racing into this …
Target Corp.’s data breach headache may be an opportunity for insurance carriers, insurance agents, risk managers and businesses to spread the word about cyber risk – although the message is bit of a scary one. The not-so-cheery holiday message: If …
Weak computer passwords and vulnerable software have left some Kansas state agencies vulnerable to hackers gaining access to confidential data or internal breaches, according to a new information technology audit. Some of those problems have been identified in the past …
Chinese hackers eavesdropped on the computers of five European foreign ministries before last September’s G20 Summit, which was dominated by the Syrian crisis, according to research by computer security firm FireEye Inc. The hackers infiltrated the ministries’ computer networks by …
