Computer code and text displayed on computer screens. Reporter Billions of personal information records may have been exposed in April after a hacking group gained access to records from the ...

The personal data that companies collect from consumers online has become a big business referred to as data brokerage. However, most consumers don't know what personal information about them is being ...

Your personal data is a highly valuable commodity. Companies often treat it like a resource to be mined and traded. In practice, this means that everything you do on the Internet, what you search, ...

HealthEquity is notifying 4.3 million people following a March data breach that affects their personal and protected health information. In its data breach notice, filed with Maine’s attorney general, ...

We’re almost at the end of 2024, a year that will go down as having seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get ...

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named ...

Elon Musk's team within the Trump administration has sought sweeping access to databases that store personal information on millions and millions of Americans. The data collected and maintained by the ...

Data breaches aren’t confined to tech giants or financial institutions anymore. Industries like healthcare, retail and even food and beverage have increasingly found themselves under attack. Now, ...

The words data and information are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. Data refers to raw facts, figures, or measurements. These can be numbers, words, symbols, or observations ...