Data breaches are becoming increasingly more common, but today’s is a doozy: 1,160,253,228 unique passwords and email addresses have been attributed to a breach that’s being called “Collection #1.” ...

I woke up this morning to find an email from the Troy Hunt 'have i been pwned?' account compromise alert site. That email informed me that my email addresses were among the 772,904,991 that had been ...

Consumers have a new headache as 2021 draws to a close: Debt collectors can now contact them by email, text and social media, thanks to a rule implemented earlier this month by the Consumer Financial ...

The National Security Agency has ended a controversial surveillance practice of collecting email traffic merely because it contains the email address or phone number of a foreign target, a procedure ...

For ten years — until 2011 — the National Security Agency collected gigantic amounts of metadata on email communications, including bulk information on Americans starting in 2007, the latest reports ...

Merely mentioning a "foreign intelligence target" is not enough. — -- The National Security Agency will cease collecting internet communications that merely mention an individual who is ...

Under a new Trump administration policy, debt collectors would be able to call consumers as frequently as seven times a week, and be allowed to start sending emails and texts. The Fair Debt Collection ...

Walmart gave Snopes a possible explanation for a customer being sent an email about a product he purchased with cash.

The State Department published over 7,000 of Clinton's emails today. — -- Today’s release of over 7,000 pages of Hillary Clinton email marks the halfway point for the State Department, which is ...