The DOJ announced the seizure of a domain and a password database used by a cybercrime group to steal millions of dollars from bank accounts.

A stolen password database used to facilitate unauthorized bank transfers worth more than $28 million to victims has been ...

One of the biggest stories of the year was the leak of 16 billion passwords — credentials now being used in ongoing hack ...

The FBI has confirmed that 630 million stolen passwords were found on devices belonging to a single hacker. Here's how to check if yours is one of them.

Q: I saw PCWorld’s lists for the best password managers, and your top picks were for cloud-based services. Wouldn’t a locally stored password database be more secure? A: One of our top password ...

Security researchers have discovered what appears to be the largest password leak of all time, containing around 10 billion unique, plain text passwords. The file, titled "rockyou2024.txt," was posted ...

Any data breach affecting 1.6 million people is serious. It draws even more attention when it involves a company trusted to ...

National Public Data (NPD), a background check company, admitted it exposed sensitive info like phone numbers, addresses and Social Security numbers to hackers. While the company hasn’t shared how big ...

Hackers who compiled a database of as many as 350,000 Spotify passwords proceeded to store it on a cloud server … without a password. The breach also offers a reminder of a key principle to apply when ...

Passwords are a staple of both the internet and computing at large. Even as new authentication protocols have emerged—from passkeys to biometrics—most of us use passwords to log into our daily ...

I’ve been using password managers for a long time, starting with the open-source KeePass in Windows nearly 20 years ago. When I moved back to the Apple world in the late 2000s, I was drawn in by the ...