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 ...

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The Department of Veterans Affairs would not be able to send names of veterans who have had financial managers appointed for them to the FBI's gun background check database under any circumstances ...

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 ...

The background check system for gun purchases is a mess. Republicans have criticized Democratic presidents for failing to ...

Hackers accessed the highly sensitive background check information of 19.7 million people, as well as the information of 1.8 million people who didn't even apply for background investigations, the ...

DISA, which provides background checks for employers including Fortune 500 companies, has suffered a data breach comprising the records of more than 3.3 million people, according to a Feb. 21 filing ...