The University of California, Berkeley, is in the process of notifying 160,000 current and past students, as well as some of their parents, spouses and other people, that their personal and medical information was stolen by hackers. The data breach incident occurred between October 2008 and April this year.
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A hard drive has been carelessly released, but is fortunately in safe hands
Hot off the heels of the  of selling the B-2 stealth bomber’s radar spectrum to a Russian national and intrusions by Chinese hackers, the U.S. Armed Forces have another leak on their hands.  Researchers analyzing 300 hard drives bought at computer fairs and [...]

Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls, the newspaper said, [...]

The Army recently discovered a potential penetration of soldier information that occurred on a password-protected, secure web-based database of almost 1600 soldiers. As a cautionary measure, the Army is notifying those affected soldiers via email or letter.
The affected soldiers are those who registered with, or participated in, the Army-sponsored Operation Tribute to Freedom program over [...]