PayPal bug in loan app exposed sensitive customer data for five months Some accounts saw unauthorized transactions; victims reimbursed and passwords reset PayPal ...

An unsecured database that likely contains tens of millions of unique Social Security numbers, alongside email addresses and passwords, has been discovered by security researchers. While the database ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The McLennan County jail nurse who may have exposed about a dozen inmates to the virus that causes AIDS has been fired, the county’s attorney confirmed Tuesday. While the ...

Ransomware attacks against schools and universities held relatively steady in 2025, but the scale of data exposure rose sharply, driven in part by third-party software vulnerabilities and a handful of ...

A company that makes toys powered by artificial intelligence exposed snippets of thousands of conversations its toys had with children, according to Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Richard ...

Mr. Hussain, a former lead economist on Bangladesh for the World Bank, wrote from Dhaka. Mr. Joehnk, a former Bangladesh correspondent for The Economist, wrote from London. A year and a half ago, ...

Widespread misconfiguration of popular AI assistant OpenClaw means many instances are exposed to the public-facing internet, SecurityScorecard has warned. The security vendor said it found 40,214 such ...

CNBC put the AI threat to software companies to the test by vibe-coding a version of the tools from Monday.com. Silicon Valley insiders say the most exposed software names are the ones that "sit on ...

It has been a rough start to the year for password security. A massive database containing 149 million stolen logins and passwords was found publicly exposed online. The data included credentials tied ...

A threat actor is targeting exposed MongoDB instances in automated data extortion attacks demanding low ransoms from owners to restore the data. The attacker focuses on the low-hanging fruit, ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system using a clever molecular trick. Researchers found that the cancer-driving protein MYC also suppresses immune alarm signals, allowing tumors to grow ...

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware. The ...