Displaying items by tag: Social security numbers

Last year, 4,518 data breaches were reported globally with threat actors exposing or stealing 22.62 billion credentials and personal records, ranging from account and financial information to emails and Social Security numbers, a new security report has revealed.

A newspaper in St Louis, Missouri, which discovered that the social security numbers of school teachers, administrators and counsellors across the state were publicly exposed and informed the authorities, has been threatened with unspecified action by the state's governor.