Social Security numbers are critically important pieces of personal data for Americans. SSNs are considered to be a primary type of personally identifiable information, i.e., PII, and are supposed to ...

In a disturbing find, a cybersecurity vendor discovered an exposed online database that may have been storing as many as 1 billion Social Security numbers (SSNs). A database indexed using ...

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named ...

Numbers Station, a startup that is using large language models (LLMs) to power its data analytics platform, is launching its first cloud-based product today: the aptly named Numbers Station Cloud, ...

A data breach at government technology giant Conduent appears to affect far more people than first disclosed, with the number of victims potentially stretching to dozens of millions of people across ...

ADT has confirmed a new data breach, and it comes with a familiar twist. A well-known cybercrime group is reportedly demanding money and threatening to leak data if it does not get paid. The group ...

Companies should scrub calling lists against the Reassigned Numbers Database (RND) at least every 31 days to protect themselves from TCPA liability. Plaintiffs’ firms are targeting companies for ...

Last month, we looked at how scammers can gain access to your phone number and how data breaches and phishing campaigns could make obtaining it easy. In this blogpost, we’ll focus more on why phone ...

The Federal Communications Commission’s Reassigned Numbers Database is designed to prevent a consumer from getting unwanted calls intended for someone who previously held their phone number.