In addition to concerns about exposing private information, some critics fear that handing all the data to DOGE could enable bad actors ... Social Security and other personal identification ...

They create and store unique, strong passwords for every service, reducing the temptation to reuse passwords across different platforms. Never reuse passwor ...

A centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private ...

AI-powered automation will give rise to the " zero-knowledge threat actor ." Threat actors will leverage AI tools and ...

What the agency has: Basic personal information as well as health information. For everyone with Medicare (the program generally for people 65 or older), CMS has their Social Security number and ...

Fewer than 50 people have access to Social Security Administration databases containing hundreds of millions of people's private financial and personal information. But only one also has access to ...

When it comes to sensitive personal data ... and social security support, the March 20 executive order on information silos might seem like small beer. But if this order is followed aggressively ...

Upon discovering the breach, Hertz embarked on security research to know “the scope of the event and to identify individuals whose personal information may have been impacted." On the 2nd of ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of ...

Some personal information, including birth dates and Social Security numbers, may have been accessed amid a “data security incident“ that hit the city of Forest Park last year, officials said ...

Social Security has spent weeks clearing out bad data from its records, sifting out nearly 10 million cases where Social Security number holders were over the age of 120. The Department of ...