Scammers target seniors who avoid social media by exploiting public records like obituaries and real estate filings to steal ...

Your health information might feel private and secure with your doctor, but the reality is far more complicated. Data brokers collect a wide range of sensitive health data, from diagnoses and ...

Each data breach includes sensitive personal information, such as credit and debit card numbers, home addresses and account usernames and passwords from hundreds of thousands -- and sometimes ...

Once you find your profile on these sites, you can request to opt of having your personal information sold or shared.

Don't sit around saying "it'll never happen to me" while your personal data is traded around the internet and becomes an ...

DNA testing company 23andMe wins court approval to sell data after it filed for bankruptcy. What does that mean for your privacy? California’s attorney general is urging consumers to delete ...

From weather apps to social media, many services collect far more personal data than needed. Before downloading, users should ...

Of all the information available about you online, you'd probably think details about your health would be safe.

You need the North Carolina DMV to get your license and registration, and while you give them your personal information, they can turn around and sell it, and it's all legal. Just in the last five ...

Popular DNA research company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Users may want to scrub their data from the site to avoid a breach.

You read that correctly. Thanks to a recent acquisition, personal passenger information from eight major US airlines is now being shared with the Department of Homeland Security's US Customs and ...