Good news: The number of data breaches reported in 2018 dropped 23% compared with 2017. Bad news: The number of sensitive consumer records exposed increased 126% year-over-year. The data comes from ...

The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI’s) Center on Housing Markets and Finance released its monthly update to the AEI Housing Market Indicators (HMI) on February 25, 2019. These indicators provide ...

The top five security breaches discovered in 2018 affected over 2 billion users' records (Aadhar -- 1.1B, Marriot -- 500M, Exactis -- 340M, Twitter -- 330M, MyFitnessPal -- 150M) and included highly ...

The FBI released detailed data on nearly 6.6 million criminal offenses reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2018. The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest ...

The new interim leader for the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department started her role with news about a 5-year-old data breach the department says it learned about just last month. TPCHD’s Cindan ...

In September 2018, it came to light that hackers had breached Facebook and gained access to data on over 50 million Facebook accounts. Around 3 million of those affected accounts were based in EU ...

Pearson, a London-based publishing and education giant that provides software to schools and universities has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it misled investors about a 2018 data ...

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The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled on Monday, Nov. 18 that private people who lose control over their data through unauthorized access are authorized to claim damages. As a result, this ...

The American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Housing Markets and Finance released its monthly update to the AEI Housing Market Indicators on April 1, 2019. This month’s main takeaways include: Given ...