Data Security

TechCrunch reports that 23andMe has been acquired by co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki's nonprofit TTAM Research Institute for $305 million after leading U.S. biotechnology firm Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, which was initially reported to purchase the firm for $256 million, refused to challenge the bid.

Online macOS cloud services provider VirtualMacOSX had information from 10,000 clients purportedly stolen in a breach exposed on a widely known clear web hacking forum, where troves of information allegedly pilfered from AT&T, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, and Facebook had been peddled, Hackread reports.

Virginia-based debt collection firm Credit Control Corporation was claimed to have information from 9.1 million people across the U.S. stolen in a data breach, Cybernews reports.

While there was still no evidence of exploitation, Trend Micro advises customers to patch right away.

T-Mobile had 64 million records purportedly stolen from its systems exposed on a data leak site, Cybernews reports.

TechCrunch reports that 23andMe was noted by interim CEO Joseph Selsavage to have had 1.9 million individuals request the removal of their genetic data from the DNA testing services company following its bankruptcy declaration in March.

Major European food delivery platform GonnaOrder had real-time order information from thousands of its customers inadvertently exposed by a Kafka Broker instance that has been unsecured since August 2022, reports Cybernews.