23andMe to Hacked Users: We Won’t See You in Court
23&Me admitted it lost 6.9 million users’ DNA in a hack, after initially reporting only 14,000 users were affected. If you’ve used 23andMe, there’s basically a coin-flip chance that your…
Do You Use Okta? Hackers Probably Have Your Name and Email Now
Okta announced on Tuesday that hackers who breached its systems in October stole details about every user of the identity management service’s customer support platform, contradicting the company’s announcement in…
23andMe Users’ Info Leaked Again, Millions of Records Found on Dark Web
Millions of 23andMe users had their info leaked once again after being hacked earlier this month, according to a report by TechCrunch Thursday. The hacker, who goes by the name…
23andMe Sued After Hacker Claims Massive Data Breach Impacting Ashkenazi Jews
23andMe, the company that lets you know whether you’re related to your wife or not, appears to be in trouble. Over the weekend, multiple outlets reported that the biotech company…
Court Finds That Teenage Hackers Were Central to Data Breaches of Uber, Nvidia, and Rockstar Games
It’s official: a band of British teenagers managed to hack some of the biggest companies on the planet last year, and they did it all using fairly basic hacking techniques.…
Tesla Says Massive Data Breach Was an Inside Job
Tesla’s data breach in May, which affected more than 75,000 people, was an inside job, the company said in a notice released to its customers on Friday. According to the…
Hack involved the data of a nation’s entire population
Hackers are well known to nab customer data held by companies, but obtaining the personal data of pretty much all of the residents of a single nation in one fell…
T-Mobile suffers massive data breach … again
T-Mobile said on Thursday it has suffered a data breach involving 37 million customer accounts. The mobile carrier discovered the breach on January 5 and took action “within 24 hours.”…
Uber says it’s investigating ‘cybersecurity incident’
Computer systems belonging to ridesharing giant Uber appear to have been targeted by hackers in what could be a serious security breach.
Online payment fraud has doubled over the past seven years
Online payment fraud has doubled over the past few years, with the largest jump happening between 2020 and 2021. Here’s how and why it’s happening more.