FTC Concerned About Privacy Protections in 23andMe Bankruptcy March 31, 2025 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is concerned about the potential sale or transfer of Americans’ personal information by 23andMe ancestry...
Oracle Warns Health Customers of Patient Data Breach March 30, 2025 By Jake Bleiberg, Margi Murphy and Brody Ford Hackers broke into Oracle Corp.’s computer systems and stole patient data in an attempt to extort multiple medical providers in...
23andMe’s Bankruptcy Puts 15 Million Users’ DNA Info on Auction Block March 25, 2025 By Jonathan Randles Millions of Americans who sent their saliva to 23andMe in the hopes of finding lost relatives or identifying health risks...
UnitedHealth Says Hack at Tech Unit Impacted 190 Million People January 28, 2025 The cyberattack at UnitedHealth Group’s tech unit last year affected the personal information of 190 million people, the health conglomerate...
Wearable Sensors Can Predict Overheating but Is There Privacy Risk? August 28, 2024 By Cathy Bussewitz On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos and hazardous waste while working...
UnitedHealth Hackers Say They Stole ‘Millions’ of Records, Then Delete Statement February 29, 2024 By Raphael Satter In a message posted to, and then quickly deleted from their darknet site, the hackers blamed for striking the UnitedHealth...
23andMe Says Health Data Was Included in Hack That Compromised 6.9 Million Users December 5, 2023 By Kristen V. Brown Some 6.9 million 23andMe customers had their data compromised after an anonymous hacker accessed user profiles and posted them for...
Private Health Data Still Being Exposed to Big Tech, Report Says October 17, 2023 Despite recent efforts to address the issue, medical-related websites continue to be mined for data including personal medical information, in...
Significant Hack Potentially Exposes US Lawmakers’ Personal Data March 9, 2023 By Raphael Satter A serious breach at a healthcare administrator serving the U.S. House of Representatives has potentially exposed the personal data of...