Prosper confirmed a major data breach affecting 17 million people. Learn what happened, why it matters for fintech security, and how IT leaders can respond.

Database security is crucial to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data. It builds customer trust, helps comply with regulations, and reduces the risks associated with ...

The unsecured database also holds dates of birth, parents' names, and other personal information—and Russia, China, and Iran ...

DOGE officials also put millions of taxpayers’ private data at risk and refused to say why they needed access to it, the official says. They came in aggressively, a former official who witnessed Elon ...

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The Chinese generative artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek has had a meteoric rise this week, stoking rivalries and generating market pressure for United States–based AI companies, which in turn ...

When people think of Social Security, they typically think of monthly benefits — for the roughly 69 million retirees, disabled workers, dependents and survivors who receive them today. But efforts by ...

Why it matters: Security researchers have uncovered a major vulnerability that could have allowed anyone to bypass airport security and even access airplane cockpits. The flaw was found in the login ...

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and ...

Qantas has confirmed a global cyber criminal group has come good on its threat to post information stolen from the airline’s ...

Multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been granted access to information in a database on unaccompanied children who crossed the border into the United States — in line with the ...