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Pharma giant Regeneron to buy 23andMe and its customers’ data for $256M

Biotech & Health /

Pharmaceutical maker Regeneron announced Monday it will buy genetic testing company 23andMe for $256 million following a bankruptcy auction.  Regeneron said it will acquire 23andMe’s genomics service and its bank of 15 million customers’ personal and genetic data as part of the deal. The pharma giant said it plans to use the 23andMe customer data […]

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Coinbase says customers’ personal information stolen in data breach

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Crypto giant Coinbase has confirmed its systems have been breached and customer data, including government-issued identity documents, were stolen. In a legally required filing with U.S. regulators, Coinbase said a hacker this week told the company that they had obtained information about customer accounts, and demanded money from the company in exchange for not publishing

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White House scraps plan to block data brokers from selling Americans’ sensitive data

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A senior Trump administration official has scrapped a plan that would have blocked data brokers from selling Americans’ personal and financial information, including Social Security numbers.  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in December 2024 it planned to close a loophole under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the federal law that protects Americans’ personal

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Marks & Spencer confirms customers’ personal data was stolen in hack

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U.K. retail giant Marks & Spencer has confirmed hackers stole its customers’ personal information during a cyberattack last month. In a brief statement with London’s stock exchange on Tuesday, the retailer said an unspecified amount of customer information was taken in the data breach. The BBC, which first reported the company’s filing, cited a Marks

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VC firm Insight Partners confirms personal data stolen during January hack

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Venture capital firm Insight Partners said it will alert an unspecified number of people that their personal information was stolen during a cyberattack in January. The VC firm confirmed in an updated statement this week it was planning to notify affected people on a rolling basis beginning “in the next few days.” The company said

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Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million

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A data breach at Connecticut’s largest healthcare system Yale New Haven Health affects more than 5.5 million people, according to a legally required notice with the U.S. government’s health department. Yale New Haven said the March cyberattack allowed malicious hackers to obtain copies of patients’ personally identifiable information and some healthcare-related data.  Per a notice

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Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years

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Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California is notifying millions of people of a data breach. The company confirmed on Wednesday that it had been sharing patients’ private health information with tech and advertising giant Google since 2021. The insurer said that the data sharing stopped in January 2024, but it only learned this February

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Marks & Spencer confirms cybersecurity incident amid ongoing disruption

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Retail giant Marks & Spencer has confirmed a cybersecurity incident, as customers report ongoing disruption and outages. The British-headquartered retailer on Tuesday told customers in a notice, which TechCrunch has seen, that the company has been “managing a cyber incident” over the last few days. The notice, signed by chief executive Stuart Machin, said it

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