A hacker claims to have breached Condé Nast and leaked an alleged WIRED database containing more than 2.3 million subscriber ...

An unprotected 140+ GB MongoDB database led to the discovery of a huge collection of 808,539,939 email records, with many of them also containing detailed personally identifiable information (PII).

A trove of breached data, which has now been taken down, includes user logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta. Among the exposed accounts are ones linked to dozens of governments. In ...

Data breaches keep happening, and too often they come down to companies failing to take cybersecurity seriously. Some of the biggest breaches have been caused by negligence, and now there’s another ...

Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that held 1.5 billion records containing real estate ownership data of millions ...

New digital health system promises big gains in screening and treatment, but critics warn it increases the risks of data ...

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The New York Police Department restored more than 2,000 ...

A misconfigured database has led to the disclosure of 191 million voter records. The database, discovered by researcher Chris Vickery, doesn’t seem to have an owner; it’s just sitting in the public – ...

The NYPD's database will go live days after the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board released its own trove of disciplinary data. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo The NYPD on Monday released its own ...