A 2025 data breach at fintech company 700Credit exposes personal information of more than 5.8 million people through ...

Aflac is notifying impacted customers after completing an investigation into a massive data breach that occurred back in June ...

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget must strengthen federal efforts to reduce the use of Social Security numbers, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. Here are five things ...

One of the first things most parents do after a baby is born is apply for a Social Security number for the child. Though he or she might not have a credit card or bank account, children make a ...

A threat actor has re-released data from a 2021 AT&T breach affecting 70 million customers, this time combining previously separate files to directly link Social Security numbers and birth dates to ...

Most IT workers in state and local government know the cliché that asserts citizens should be "online" rather than "in line" when attaining government services. But many of them contend citizens ...

Mercedes-Benz USA has just disclosed a data breach impacting some of its customers. The company assessed 1.6 million customer records which included customer names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, ...

Utah's Medicaid hack estimate has grown a second time. This time we have gone from over 180,000 Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) recipients having their personal information stolen ...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information gleaned from governmental sources, commercial databases, and online social networks can be used to routinely predict most--and ...

For citizens of the US, the social security number (SSN) is the gateway to all things financial. It fills its government purpose of helping us pay our taxes and track our (in many cases, hypothetical) ...