Since 2016, hundreds of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have faced internal investigations into abuse of confidential law enforcement databases and agency computers.

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...

Almost 2.7 billion records of personal information for people in the United States were leaked on a hacking forum, exposing names, social security numbers, all known physical addresses, and possible ...

Patients were inundated with spam texts and other annoyances after the massive HCA Healthcare data hack disclosed last July compromised the records of more than 11 million people. A Florida resident ...

The electronic health record data analyzed in this study is anonymized and never leaves a secure data environment, which is only accessible by approved researchers working on approved projects. The ...

In the past decade, healthcare data has become one of the most sought-after targets in cybercrime. From insurers to clinics, every player in the ecosystem handles some form of sensitive information.

The latest tally for the largest-ever health industry data breach just got a lot bigger. UnitedHealth Group now said hackers stole records of about 190 million people in last February's attack on its ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In the summer of 2021, New York Police Department officer ...

As the Trump administration has ramped up raids in Los Angeles and around the country, top officials have highlighted the capture of immigrants convicted of crimes like murder, assault and rape — ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Dr. Bonde Thylstrup studies data loss at the University of Copenhagen. Mr. Ovenden is the head of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. Researchers logging onto the website Data.gov in ...