Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Toronto police allege a constable unlawfully accessed private police databases on several occasions between January 2024 and April ...

ELYRIA, Ohio — A former 911 dispatcher in Lorain County has been charged after authorities say he improperly accessed a law enforcement database for personal reasons while on duty. Greggory D. Byrd, ...

TORONTO — Toronto police say they have arrested and charged one of their own officers who allegedly accessed private police databases without authorization. Police allege Const. Abbas Popal accessed ...

The inspector general's office of the Social Security Administration is investigating allegations of a security breach by a member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency operation ...

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In January 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts identified a new evolution in the ongoing ClickFix campaign. This updated tactic deliberately crashes victims’ browsers and then attempts to lure users into ...

A Lake County Sheriff’s Office civilian employee was ordered to perform community service rather than being prosecuted for using agency databases to search for information on her husband and his ...

A 25-year-old with two-plus years on the force became at least the third Riverside County sheriff’s deputy this year to be accused of illegally accessing a computer database. Deputy Dakota Lasher ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and ...

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies. Alex Karp, a ...