More than 5.3 million residents of North Carolina were victims of data breaches in 2017 - an escalating trend that has prompted state Attorney General Josh Stein (D) and state Rep. Jason Saine (R) to introduce newly proposed legislation to prevent further incidents and protect the public.
The New York City Police Department has subpoenaed Google requesting the entire online history of a Staten Island teenager, according to a New York Post report.
The bill would let federal agencies, including the FBI, the broad authority to sift without a warrant through data gather under Section 702 for information about Americans, prior to opening an active investigation.
India's national ID database containing the information of nearly 1.2 billion people was breached with cybercriminals selling access to the information for $8.
The two were troubled by leaks to reporters, including assertions that former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos triggered the Russian collusion probe.
Alarmed by the breadth of voter data requested by the commission many states had resisted its overtures, leading the White House to concede it was fighting an uphill battle.
A slew of online services used to manage GPS- and GSM-based location tracking devices have been found vulnerable to flaws that could allow attackers to hijack these devices and reveal their owners' past and current locations.
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