Security

ADT got hacked again. Your address may be out there.

The company paid to protect your home just got burglarized. For the third time. And it’s not just an ADT problem.

Your ex has your Social Security number. Here’s what they can do with it.

Divorce, breakups, estranged family. Millions of people handed over their most sensitive info to someone they no longer trust. Here’s the damage they can do and how to stop it.

The password is dying. Microsoft, Google and Amazon already started replacing yours.

A passkey is sitting in your phone. Most people don’t know they have one. Here’s how to get organized before the transition happens to you.

That store camera isn’t just watching for shoplifters. It’s watching you.

Every time you walk into a grocery store, a big box retailer or a pharmacy, AI-powered cameras track how you move, where you linger and what you almost bought. Here’s what they know.

There’s a new kind of camera spreading across America. It doesn’t care how fast you’re going. It’s listening.

No radar gun. No officer. Just a very patient microphone running 24 hours a day. And the tickets are already in the mail.

She chats with him every day. He’s stolen her heart and possibly her savings.

A 78-year-old mom has a “boyfriend” in Nigeria. He’s almost 30 years younger. He’s promised to visit four times. Something always comes up.

Your email inbox is the skeleton key to your entire life

If someone gets into your email, they own every account you have. Here are the three moves that lock them out for good.

Data brokers are selling lists of the recently widowed, diagnosed and broke. Here’s who’s buying.

It’s not your credit score they want. It’s your worst moment. Already packaged. Already sold.

The internet is carding you. And it’s not working.

Half of U.S. states passed laws to keep kids off social media. Kids route around them in minutes. But YOUR government ID? That stays in a database forever.

Your iCloud is not a backup (and Janet learned that the hard way)

Seven years of photos. Her son’s first steps. His first day of kindergarten. Gone. Here’s the difference between sync and backup, and why it matters more than you think.

Your printer has been secretly tracking you for 40 years. Here’s the proof hiding on every page you’ve ever printed.

Every color printer puts invisible tracking dots on your pages. The government knows. The manufacturers know. You didn’t. Until now.

A data broker was caught selling a list of 435,000 Alzheimer’s patients. Your family could be on it

A Texas company sold names, addresses and phone numbers of people with Alzheimer’s, addictions and disabilities to anyone willing to pay. The fine? Just $45,000.

The number that unlocks your entire life (and it’s not your SSN)

Your phone number is tied to your bank, your email, your health portal and every two-factor code you receive. Criminals can steal it with one phone call. Here’s how to lock it down.

Your smart home gadgets are tattling to your insurance company. Here’s how to shut them up

Insurance companies are using your smart thermostat, doorbell cam and even your sleep tracker to deny claims and jack up your rates. I’ll show you what they’re watching and exactly how to cut them off.

Criminals are using Zillow to plan break-ins. Here’s how to remove your home in 10 minutes.

An 84-year-old was kidnapped from her home. Retirees in Florida had their sliding glass door shattered at midnight. Two teens dressed as delivery drivers duct-taped a couple in Scottsdale. It all starts the same way: Your address is free online, and Zillow shows them the blueprint.

The $10 mistake that made a doorbell camera useless when it mattered most

Millions of us have a doorbell camera and feel totally safe. But when an 84-year-old woman vanished from her home, the camera on her front door had zero usable footage. Here’s the $10-a-month mistake you might be making right now.

Stalkerware attacks jumped 29% last year. Here’s the phone checkup everyone needs to do right now.

I get calls every week from people who think someone’s watching their every move. Sometimes they’re wrong. But stalkerware attacks on Android phones surged 29% in 2025, 26 spy app companies have been hacked since 2017, and almost 1 in 10 Americans has been tracked by a hidden GPS device. Here are the exact settings to check on your iPhone or Android right now.

The dark web price list: What criminals pay for your personal data

Your Social Security number goes for $1. Your complete identity? Under $100. Here’s what’s being sold, who’s buying and why medical records are now worth more than credit cards.

You don’t own a Ring doorbell. Your face is in the database anyway.

Split screen: person walking past neighbor’s house with facial recognition overlay vs. close-up of Ring doorbell camera.

He leaked secrets from inside a human trafficking scam compound. Then he had to escape alive.

A computer engineer gets lured to a “job” in Laos. What follows: 40 days of espionage, beatings and one of the most harrowing escapes you’ll read this year.