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Home Depot Data Breach Liability Lawsuits Have Already Begun
Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc has been sued over data breach by a customer, saying the company failed to properly safeguard customer data from hackers, a lawsuit filed in a Chicago federal ...
Home Depot Cyber Violation Could Be Biggest Retail Breach Yet
Home Depot Inc., the largest home- improvement chain, confirmed that hackers attacked its computer systems at stores in the U.S. and Canada in what could be one of the retail industry's biggest ...
JPMorgan, Other Banks Focus of Latest Cyber-Attack
JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank, said it increased defenses against computer hackers after an attack against the industry this month. The lender is working with U.S. authorities to ...
Report: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hit By Cyber Attacks
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was "successfully hacked" three times in recent years in attacks involving tainted emails, according to an internal investigation on cyber attacks at the ...
Exploiting ‘Heartbleed’ Bug Aided Massive Hospital System Cyber Attack
Hackers who stole the personal data of about 4.5 million patients of hospital group Community Health Systems Inc broke into the company's computer system by exploiting the "Heartbleed" internet bug, ...
U.S. at High Risk for Cyber Terrorism, Says 9/11 Commission
The terrorist threat against the U.S. remains dangerous 10 years after the 9/11 Commission issued its first report—only now the risk is greater online. In a report issued Tuesday, panel members who ...
Insurers Struggling With Cyber Risk Market; Staffing an Issue
Insurers are eagerly eyeing exponential growth in the tiny cyber coverage market, but their lack of experience and skills handling hackers and data breaches may keep their ambitions in check. ...
Internet Security Firm Offers Free Protection for Political Blogs Against Cyber Attack
Internet security company Cloudflare said last Thursday that it will offer its full raft of protective services for free to "politically or artistically important" websites that come under ...