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You can change a password after a breach. You can cancel a credit card. But when your Social Security number gets exposed, you could be dealing with the fallout for years. That is the concern after a major breach involving the Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center. If you have served in the military, worked for…

In March of last year, Bleeping Computer reported some shenanigans that strongly suggested a data breach at Oracle Cloud had occurred. An apparent hacker who went by rose87168 was releasing data that seemed to have been pried out of Oracle’s single sign-on system. At the time, according to Bleeping Computer, Oracle denied there was a…

Beyond the immediate headache for consumers impacted by a data breach, new Virginia Tech research has found they can also trigger years of financial repercussions such as mortgage refinancing and home improvement loan denials. Using data from the 2012 South Carolina Department of Revenue breach, Tony Vance, professor of business information technology in the Pamplin College…