A massive government data breach that could rank among the largest in United States history is rapidly unfolding, and the fallout may touch millions of Americans you know — or even you. What began as ...

Federal agencies are grappling with an ever-expanding deluge of unstructured data—from text documents and emails to images, videos, surveillance footage, and sensor outputs—critical for everything ...

Two Virginia twin brothers are facing federal charges after allegedly targeting sensitive government databases while working as contractors. According to Fox News, the Justice Department announced ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

Surprising no one, the Department of Governmental Efficiency and the Department of Homeland Security are in cahoots. What is surprising almost everyone is that they've quietly built a searchable ...

Here’s an open secret: the U.S. government collects vast amounts of data on every person living in the country. If you bank, use transportation, walk outside your home, pay taxes, or do any regulated ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged two Virginia brothers arrested on Wednesday with allegedly conspiring to steal sensitive information and destroy government databases after being fired from their jobs as ...

For a few hours this week, the future of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program — a database used by companies and governments to learn about new security holes in the software they ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching a registry tracking Americans with autism as part of a series of new studies by America’s anti-vax health czar, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, to discover ...

Margaret Levenstein receives or has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Census Bureau. John Kubale receives funding from the National ...