32 senators want to know if US regulators halted Equifax probe

Earlier this week, a Reuters report suggested that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had halted its investigation into last year's massive Equifax data breach. Reuters sources said that even basic steps expected in such a probe hadn't b...

Federal employees stole data from Homeland Security

Three employees of the inspector general's office for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are accused of stealing a computer system that contained around 246,000 employees' personal data. That information included names, social security numbers...

US bank authority warns of data breach that took 10,000 records

Government data breaches aren't always the work of foreign intruders or even disgruntled employees. Sometimes, it's a staffer who simply isn't security-conscious. The US' Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has revealed that a worker took over...