data breach news from FierceComplianceIT

Alberto Gonzalez was the mastermind of the massive, headline generating data breach at Heartland Payment Systems, TJX and others, but it's clear he had some help from some former employees of top... Read more...

Recall that Heartland Payment System's big data breach led to a cornucopia of legal activity. More than 31 lawsuits were filed against it; about 700 banks announced losses as a result of the... Read more...

In the wake of the disclosure of the massive data breach at Heartland Payments Systems--masterminded by Albert Gonzalez--no one was surprised when Heartland was sued. A class action suit was amended... Read more...

A U.S. district judge in San Francisco has approved a settlement of a class action suit brought by more than 6 million current and former customers of TD Ameritrade. The AP reports the Omaha-based... Read more...

Recall the saga of Rene Rebollo Jr., the former senior analyst for Countrywide. Rebollo allegedly used a flash drive to steal data on about 20,000 customers a week for two years. He sold the... Read more...

Remember the data breach that landed the Bank of New York Mellon in the headlines? Well, it was worse than initially reported. More than 12 million people had their personal info--including social... Read more...

Yet another data breach? A laptop computer with the personal information of 33,000 passengers seeking to enroll in an airport security prescreening program--the irony is almost too much--has been... Read more...