Following reports of the Heartbleed Bug, several other breaches are now making headlines. ESecurityPlanet reports Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Division of Research is “notifying approximately 5,100 Kaiser Permanente members who had participated in research studies that malware found on a server on February 12, 2014, may have compromised their personal information.” And Reuters reports Iowa and North Carolina are joining two other U.S. states examining a breach of 200 million personal records. Meanwhile, The New York Times uses the recent Target breach as the most widely known example of the less-obvious ways hackers access personal data—highlighting such others as an online takeout menu that was infected with malware to breach an oil company.
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