Data Security

Ninety percent of 40 widely known genetic testing services firms, including 23andMe, Ancestry, and MyHeritage, had received a C grade at most for their cybersecurity efforts, indicating the pervasiveness of poor cybersecurity practices across the DNA services industry, Cybernews reports.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been urged by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., to activate its Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to thwart China and other nation-state adversaries from obtaining over 15 million Americans' genetic data upon the sale of embattled DNA testing services company 23andMe.

GrubHub had 70 million lines of data from almost 17 million accounts touted to have been compromised in an attack against the major U.S. online food delivery service in February, according to Cybernews.

Cybernews reports that German multinational vehicle tracking service provider NexOpt had almost 1 TB of sensitive information from more than 300,000 passenger and commercial vehicles exposed as a result of an unprotected Kibana instance, which was already secured last month.

New generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and machine learning (ML) technologies have helped cybersecurity elevate existing products and drive the creation of new ones.

Data security solutions are crucial as they safeguard confidential information from unauthorized access, maintaining the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data.

As organizations face cyberattacks that place whole systems, databases, files and more at risk, and as nation-state attacks and unexpected weather events spur downtime, companies recognize the need for quick recovery to keep their businesses up and running.

Major Singaporean consumer bank DBS Group and Bank of China's Singapore branch may have had data from over 11,000 individuals cumulatively compromised following a ransomware intrusion against data vendor Toppan Next Tech, according to Reuters.