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The Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) 2022 Data Breach Report shows scammers were hard at work last year with 1,802 total publicly reported compromises. While the number of breaches was lower than the previous year, the number of victims impacted increased by almost 41% with a total of more than 422 million.   The ITRC said the U.S. averaged about seven…

There were fewer reported data breaches in 2022, according to a nonprofit that tracks them, but there were more victims. Consumer Investigative Reporter Susan Hogan has more now on what led to most of those compromises.

Navy Yard saw a violent weekend, and overall crime rates in the first week of 2023 show an increase over the same time last year. But crime decreased overall from 2021 into 2022.

News4’s Derrick Ward spoke with neighbors about the increase in crime right at their doorsteps.

A watchdog group has determined that some census takers who falsified information during the 2020 census didn’t have their work redone fully, weren’t fired in a timely manner and in some cases even received bonuses. The report by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Office of Inspector General raises concerns about possible damage to the quality of the once-a-decade head count that...

Washington, D.C.’s health department confirmed Wednesday that it did not submit COVID-19 data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for an 11-day period. DC Health discovered this week that between April 27 and May 8, data that include case counts, testing and deaths were not submitted to the CDC, the department said in a statement. The health department…

The video platform also overtook Facebook as the most popular social media website, according to new data from Cloudflare, a web security and performance company.

Two classic holiday tunes are battling it out for the top spot in each state.

Netflix on Tuesday rolled out a new website that measures its most-watched films and series by the amount of hours users spend watching them.