It's a plot point in countless detective shows and movies. An investigator finds fingerprints at a crime scene, scans the prints into a computer, and automatically finds matches in a huge FBI database ...

The FBI is investigating allegations that 700 students had their identities stolen from computers at a San Diego County university.The North County Times says the probe was sparked by concerns that a ...

A Chinese student whose computer contained millions of stolen IDs and passwords appears to have been a key player in a fraud ring connected to another group that has been smuggling Japanese ...

Believe Cathy Uhl, not the computer, when she insists she's alive. A computer error at Saint Mary's Mercy Medical Center mistakenly identified her and thousands of ...

The Justice Department is treading into dangerous waters by obtaining a warrant to search the computer IDs of all 1.3 million people who visited a website that advocated protests against President ...