It was discovered last year that location data for US military and intelligence personnel serving overseas was being sold by a Florida-based data broker, but the source of that sensitive data was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each data breach includes sensitive personal information, such as credit and debit card numbers, home addresses and account ...

In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it was “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing ...

The Federal Trade Commission will permanently bar data broker Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions from ...

One senator is calling for a federal investigation into whether a tech company violated privacy laws when it sold consumers’ data to the U.S. government. Meanwhile, Democrats are asking Amazon to ...

How much of your information did you hand over today? Chances are, far more than you realize. That is because there is a multi-billion-dollar data brokerage industry that runs entirely on your data, ...

Twitter said that after investigating reports that data on upwards of 400 million users was being sold online, it found “no evidence” that was obtained by exploiting vulnerabilities in its systems.

Every year, massive data breaches harm the public. The targets are email service providers, retailers and government agencies that store information about people. Each breach includes sensitive ...