On Your Side told you about it when the credit bureau announced a hack that exposed the personal information of 147 million ...

The U.S. consumer protection agency said it's closing the loophole to block the "widespread evasion" of federal law by data ...

A plaintiff dropped a proposed class action against Saint Xavier University that had claimed the Chicago private school’s failure to protect its systems led to a data breach exposing the information ...

Nearly unlimited, highly personal information is available for anyone willing to pay. AI provides many ways to turn that into ...

This morning the justices dismissed Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank as “improvidently granted” – that is, without issuing a ruling on the merits, and instead signaling that it was a mistake to grant ...

News 8 On Your Side is answering questions about an email many viewers are receiving. The message informs you that you are ...

In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB ...

An infamous breach of the Office of Personnel Management that surfaced in 2015 helped galvanize attention to the issue after ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday rolled out a new proposal aimed at cracking down on data brokers ...

Hacker posted online over 760,000 records belonging to employees of Bank of America, Koch, Nokia, JLL, Xerox, Morgan Stanley, and Bridgewater.

Data brokers would have to comply under terms set by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, in an effort that aims to stop ...

You can choose lock your SSN after a data breach but it's a different process and offers different perks than freezing your ...