The spike in exposed records and large breaches last year suggests that once bad actors gain access to healthcare organizations’ networks, they’re taking even larger sets of patient data, according to ...

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 ...

Companies are looking for innovative ways to collect data to feed their data-hungry artificial intelligence systems and create innovative applications. Fortunately, some do not have to go too far.

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.

Auto Data Direct, a Web-based motor vehicle record database, announced Tuesday it has added three states to its lineup. Users can now access records from Washington, Virginia and Indiana, bringing the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A popular tool used by numerous state and local governments to manage public records requests contained defects that could have allowed ...

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 ...

After a decade and a half of growth, vinyl is now reestablished as a significant part of the music business, bringing in well over $1 billion in revenue last year. Over the past couple of months, an ...

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