Information security analytics

The Missouri National Guard has called for a criminal investigation after it learned that the personal information of as many as 2,000 soldiers had been breached.

The Wichita Radiological Group received an anonymous call saying their patient records may have been stolen. On Monday, the executive director reported the information to Wichita police.

Top German market research firm TNS Infratest/Emnid has 'lost' 41,000 private data records of its survey participants, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has revealed in its official organ Die Datenschleuder.

Florida state health officials say a security breach in the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry may have exposed thousands of donors' personal information, including their social security numbers.

The U.S. Social Security Administration inadvertently compromised the personal information of more than 20,000 people by listing them in the Death Master File (DMF) while they were still alive, the agency's inspector general has determined.

The Ambulance Service of Scotland has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call details of almost one million people.

The state Department of Consumer Affairs has sent letters to 5,000 employees, contractors and board members warning them of a security breach that has compromised their names and social security numbers.

A slip-up in Germany led to residential rolls on half a million people becoming freely accessible on the internet, an investigative programme on German TV said Monday.

A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors.