CANTON, Ohio– Administrators at Aultman Hospital in Canton are advising some of their patients that information about them may have been compromised in a recent data breach. Tim Regula, vice president of compliance and audit for Aultman Health Foundation, says the breach happened after they noticed an increase in phishing emails to hospital accounts earlier […]

A breach of Malley’s Chocolates’ website nearly two months ago exposed the credit card information of thousands of customers, the Cleveland-based company’s co-owner Mike Malley confirmed Thursday. The incident occurred on March 18, just two weeks before Easter, and caused Malley’s to take the site offline for four days. Officials say the breach was isolated […]

(RNN) – Equifax, which monitors credit, said Thursday a security breach could potentially affect 143 million U.S. customers. The breach represents 57 percent of the nation’s population. In a news release, the company said “criminals exploited a web application” to gain access to files that include names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver’s […]

  The damage is not as huge as the one that hit Target stores and its customers and a good number of stores were not affected.  Still, if you have shopped at Michaels, double check your data and account.   (CNN) – The crafts retail chain Michaels knows more about the hack into its systems […]

  The popular chain has issued an apology and provided a number for those concerned to call.   Target confirmed Thursday that previous reports about the unauthorized access of customers’ credit card data were true. In a press release posted on the Target website, the Minneapolis-based retailer admitted that approximately 40 million credit and debit […]

NyTimes With the recent revelations brought up by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden; it underscores the increasingly deep connections between Silicon Valley and the agency and the degree to which they are now in the same business. Both hunt for ways to collect, analyze and exploit large pools of data about millions of Americans. The […]