Employee's silent rampage wipes out $2.5m worth of data
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Paranoia strikes deep A Florida woman who believed she was about to get fired has been accused of deleting $2.5m worth of computer files to seek revenge on her employer.â¦
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Lenovo has launched software to comprehensively delete data on PC hard drives, after surveys revealed a widespread failure to remove sensitive data from hard drives on PCs slated for disposal.
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Database administrator hustles info to marketeers Fidelity National Information Services, the major US financial processing company, said today a senior level database administrator at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing bank account and credit card information as well as other personal information.â¦
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Some internal e-mails were missing, despite the company's efforts to preserve documents related to the case, mostly due to communications failures inside Intel.
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R. James Nicholsonâs term was marked by the theft of a laptop computer that compromised the personal information of tens of millions of people.
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Many corporations today employ multiple techniques to protect against data loss. Unfortunately, the various approaches are often applied and managed in an uncoordinated manner. Ironically, the nightly backup, for some critical classes of applications, becomes almost irrelevant, representing a tertiary, "last ditch" level of data protection.
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A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees, a security procedure that ended up backfiring.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fidelity National Information Services, a financial processing company, said Tuesday a worker at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information.
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Useful evidence may have been destroyed when a laptop was switched on, a terror trial hears.
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A website that allows whistle blowers to anonymously post sensitive  documents is taken offline in the US.
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A data dump by an individual eBay describes as a "malicious fraudster" exposed names and contact information for 1,200 users of the auction site online. The information led to the closure of the discussion group in which the information was released -- a discussion group devoted to, ironically, security issues.
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The San Diego-based maker of data storage products said in a statement that it plans to cut 145 regular and temporary personnel worldwide, and will incur restructuring charges of between $5 million and $7 million.
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Sweden's military reports a security breach as an employee leaves a memory stick with secrets on a public computer.
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Personal information on more than 5,700 current and former faculty members at the University of Virginia may have been stolen by hackers who accessed the data multiple times over a period of almost two years.
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Workers were frustrated there was no industrywide standard for reporting suspicious activity - until now.
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Users are finding lots of inventive ways to lose precious files, say data recovery experts.
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A gang of Swedish criminals was seconds away from completing a digital bank heist when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam, investigators said Wednesday.