For many companies, running a background check on a prospective employee is the final step before making a hire. A school might run a background check to make sure a potential teacher is properly ...

Nearly 3 billion people have been affected by a previously unknown data breach at a background check company. Credit: Witthaya Prasongsin via GETTY Images You might be affected by one of the biggest ...

Hours later, a U.S. jury ordered Yusuf Abdi Ali to pay $500,000 in torture case. The CEO of the company that processes background checks for Uber and Lyft called the alleged Somali war criminal who ...

Last week, the district attorneys of San Francisco and Los Angeles said that Uber had failed to detect the criminal records of 25 drivers it had hired in the two cities. Regardless of whether it’s the ...

The company overview is the part of your business plan that gives the basics and background of your company. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Nearly one third of the population of the United States appears to have had its private information leaked in a security lapse by a large background check company. The firm, MC2 Data, left ...

The same company that investigated Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis for his security clearance also did a 2011 follow-up investigation of Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency ...

Four parallel data breach lawsuits have been filed against a 45-year-old background check services company based in Massachusetts. Creative Services, Inc. (CSI), located in Mansfield, provides ...

Four parallel lawsuits filed this month accuse a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in background checks of negligently failing to safeguard private information. Creative Services, Inc., a ...

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