Social Security numbers are critically important pieces of personal data for Americans. SSNs are considered to be a primary type of personally identifiable information, i.e., PII, and are supposed to ...

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More details about the cyberattack on National Public Data, a background check company owned by Jerico Pictures Inc., have come to light since the company’s first public statement addressing the ...

While the number of data breaches reported last year wasn’t a whole lot different than the year before, the number of people potentially affected by them skyrocketed. According to the 19th annual data ...

ADT has confirmed a new data breach, and it comes with a familiar twist. A well-known cybercrime group is reportedly demanding money and threatening to leak data if it does not get paid. The group ...

A data breach at government technology giant Conduent appears to affect far more people than first disclosed, with the number of victims potentially stretching to dozens of millions of people across ...

Signal's reputation for secure messaging doesn't make it completely invulnerable to hacking incidents. The company has confirmed that a data breach at verification partner Twillio exposed the phone ...