23andMe is looking to sell customers’ genetic data, here’s how to delete it

Many 23andMe customers signed up to the genetic testing service in hopes of learning fun or interesting information about their past. But consumer advocates are now urging those users to request the deletion of their accounts and data from the Read More …

Oracle Cloud says it’s not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data

Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen. A crook late last week advertised on an online cyber-crime forum what was alleged to be Oracle Cloud customer security Read More …

Longtime FBI agent charged with disclosing classified records

A longtime FBI agent has been charged with unlawfully taking and disclosing classified FBI files, according to court records reviewed by CBS News. Johnathan Buma, who specialized in national security and terror cases, has been released on $100,000 bond, with Read More …

A website mapped Tesla owners and their personal information amid a wave of attacks

Tesla owners confirmed on Wednesday that an online map decorated with an image of a Molotov cocktail includes accurate personal information about them, such as residential addresses, raising fears that activists opposed to billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk could target Read More …

Pennsylvania: Half a million teachers hit in major data breach

Even if you practice perfect cyber hygiene, you can still wake up to find yourself amid a major security crisis resulting from a data breach, and that’s exactly what happened to half a million teachers. As reported by The Record, Read More …

Critical Security Incident involving GitHub Action tj-action/changed-files

A critical security incident involving the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action has been reported. The changed-files action, which allows GitHub repositories to track file changes, has been tampered with to allow the exposure through GitHub Actions build logs of CI/CD secrets, including Read More …

Amazon is still hosting spyware victims’ data weeks after breach alert

Amazon will not say if it plans to take action against three phone surveillance apps that are storing troves of individuals’ private phone data on Amazon’s cloud servers, despite TechCrunch notifying the tech giant weeks earlier that it was hosting Read More …

Bank Of America Alerts Customers To Data Breach, Offers Identity Theft Protection For Affected Accounts

The Bank of America has alerted a small group of its customers about a data breach that may have exposed confidential information. The breach, which took place on December 30, was a result of improper handling of confidential documents by Read More …

Hacker accessed PowerSchool’s network months before massive December breach

A hacker compromised the U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool months before its ‘massive’ data breach in December, according to a now-published forensic report into the incident conducted by U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. In a letter sent to affected customers last week, Read More …