Hot on the heels of the National Public Records data breach, which leaked more than 2 billion records, another background check firm has now had a leak. The company in question, MC2 Data, exposed the ...

The cities of New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are suing the Department of Defense for failing to consistently report convictions to a federal database that is checked before firearms ...

This claim misrepresented a 2017 Washington Post report about hundreds of thousands of "fugitives from justice" being purged from the background check database for gun purchases. The report did not ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal personnel agency whose records were plundered by hackers linked to China says it has temporarily shut down a massive database used to update and store background ...

The Pentagon has for years defied federal laws intended to keep guns out of the hands of felons and domestic abusers by failing to report many criminal convictions in the military justice system to ...

In the flurry of first-day executive orders, President Trump revoked a 2022 police accountability package, including a system to flag misconduct. Trump took down police misconduct database, but states ...

Breach by SL Data Services has exposed 600,000 personal records Records include full names, addresses, and financial information The database was not password protected A database belonging to SL Data ...

More than 1,000 California law enforcement agency workers in the past decade have been found to have misused sensitive databases that are supposed to be accessed only for legitimate investigative ...

A federal system for doing background checks on law enforcement officers has gone offline — thanks to an executive order signed by President Trump when he returned to the White House on Jan. 20. The ...