BUT NUMBER TWO, ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, 2022 IS ON TRACK NOW TO BE THE FIRST YEAR WHERE MORE PEOPLE REPORT CONTACTED BY SCAMMERS THROUGH A TEXT MESSAGE RATHER THAN BY A PHONE CALL.

Americans were bombarded with political text messages in the months leading up to the midterm elections last year, even more than they were during the 2020 presidential race, something experts ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Paul Luehr, a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, about what happens when texts message get deleted. On January 6, Secret Service agents were ...

AT&T on Friday revealed the text and phone records of “nearly all” of its customers were exposed and downloaded to a third-party app during a massive data breach in 2022. The compromised data included ...

Jerrauld “Jay” Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, sent text messages to a state lawmaker in 2022 describing a hypothetical scenario of shooting the Republican speaker of the ...

Secret Service investigators were scrutinizing the phones of 10 Secret Service personnel that contained metadata showing text messages were sent and received around January 6, 2021, but were not ...