More than 1 billion search records belonging to CVS Health were accidentally posted online and accessible to the public earlier this year. The database belonging to the healthcare and retail giant, ...

An unsecured database exposed 4.3 billion LinkedIn-derived records, enabling large-scale phishing and identity-based attacks.

From a dog walker to a date to a babysitter, many Americans look for reassurance that the person they are letting into their homes or lives is who they say they are. To help find that reassurance, ...

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Seven years in the making, a database of police records on misconduct, shootings and use of force causing serious injury or death is now public on the websites of LAist and KQED in San Francisco. The ...

National Public Data Breach: Only 134 Million Unique Emails Leaked and Company Acknowledges Incident Your email has been sent How the data was stolen National Public Data’s sister property might have ...

A database used to track NYPD officer profiles contained security flaws that would have allowed a skilled-enough hacker to add, remove or modify data entries and insert potentially malicious files ...

Planning to look into your family's history as a 2025 resolution? There are plenty of ways to get started — from Ellis Island passenger searches you can do online, to digitized census records ...

The U.S. National Security Agency is buying vast amounts of commercially available web browsing data on Americans without a warrant, according to the agency’s outgoing director. NSA director Gen. Paul ...

It is time to tackle the growing problem of removing your personal data from uncontrolled online displays, and there are solutions within your grasp. Let’s face some hard-core facts about life online.

SEATTLE — Some vaccinated Washingtonians who are trying to confirm their COVID-19 vaccine information is in the state's system, are running into issues verifying that it's there ahead of the lottery ...