Patient information can be accessed more efficiently

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is tieing together its building and computing access systems to vastly simplify its operations

Parcel courier TNT has lost a disk containing extensive details of emergency calls made in Scotland over the last two years

Two months after the U.S. population reached 300 million people, the nation realized a more troubling statistical milestone when the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse today reported that more than 100 million records have been exposed since the ChoicePoint data breach.

A Denver company today offered $10,000 for information leading to the recovery of a stolen PC containing a government database with the personal information of 1.4 million Colorado citizens.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is again warning veterans their identity may be at risk following the theft of an unencrypted laptop from the agency's New York Harbor Healthcare System.

An Ohio pediatric hospital is notifying patients and donors - totaling as many as 240,000 people - that their personal information may have been compromised by hackers.

The cost of data breaches has risen 30 percent over the past year, according to a new Ponemon Institute study released Monday at InfoSecurity NY.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Tuesday night language that expands the scope of a law that would protect veterans from identity theft by mandating all federal agencies alert the public when they suffer breaches of sensitive information.