Since 2016, hundreds of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have faced internal investigations into abuse of confidential law enforcement databases and agency computers.

If you are part of a business, sooner or later you want to be able to collaborate on a database with a colleague or customer. In the past, the easiest way to share a small database was to create a ...

A huge MongoDB database exposing 275,265,298 records of Indian citizens containing detailed personally identifiable information (PII) was left unprotected on the Internet for more than two weeks.

Willow Pay, a fintech that lets consumers split bills into four weekly payments, had its customers' names, addresses and copies of their bills exposed by an unsecured database recently discovered by a ...

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, ...

{mosads}This popular myth has helped fuel the ongoing debate among policymakers in Washington regarding the use of background checks for everything from immigration reform to employment screening. In ...

Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, ...

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 ...

A massive store of data containing information on about one billion Chinese residents could be one of the biggest breaches of personal information in history. Portions of the leaked data appeared last ...