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The global average cost of a data breach fell to USD 4.44 million in 2025, a 9 per cent drop and the first decline in five years, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. On the surface, that ...

Meryl Kornfield and Elizabeth Dwoskin can be reached securely on Signal at @merylkornfield.59 and @lizza_dwoskin.42 The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint ...

A large fintech company is pinning the blame for its recent data breach on its firewall vendor and suing the vendor for damages. It's a line that some organizations have toed in recent years, and it ...

Americans’ personal data — including names, Social Security numbers and addresses — are in the middle of a national-security disaster and should be investigated by Congress, says one Social Security ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is under scrutiny following two security breaches in about a month. On Monday, just before 6 p.m., police arrested 34-year-old Jaime ...

Fintech giant Marquis is suing its firewall provider SonicWall, claiming that an earlier breach allowed hackers to steal sensitive information about customer firewalls that led to a ransomware attack ...

Online Security 22.6 million hit in massive Aflac data breach with IDs, SSNs, healthcare info and more exposed — what to do now Online Security Conduent data breach gets bigger; more than 25 million ...

A fatal shooting occurred during the early morning hours of February 22, 2026, after an armed man attempted to enter the secured perimeter of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Authorities reported ...

Crap! As if we don’t already have a MILLION things to deal with, now this. 🙁 A stunning whistleblower complaint is raising alarms nationwide. A former Social Security Administration official alleges ...

Small increases in monthly retirement income can feel surprisingly powerful when you're living on a fixed budget. In a world of uncertain investment returns, wouldn't you like to know how to guarantee ...

Earlier this month, the now viral social network Moltbook exposed 1.5 million API authentication tokens and 35,000 email addresses within days of launch. The cause: a single misconfigured database ...