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 ...

Some 2 billion email addresses and 1.3 billion passwords have been compromised in a series of data breaches highlighted ...

The rampant use of default passwords within live database environments continues to plague the security of enterprise data, researchers say. "It's a problem that has been around for a long, long time, ...

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 ...

Password management service 1Password has a neat new feature that lets users check whether a password they’re thinking of using has already been breached. At which point it will suggest they pick ...

eBay today revealed that attackers "compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data" between late February and early March. The database included names, e-mail ...

The breached databases contained some users' actual names, usernames, cryptographically protected passwords, email addresses, and the digital tokens that link social media accounts to Flipboard ...