Collaborate Disseminate
An Australian teen is in hot water after he allegedly exposed sensitive medical information concerning COVID-19 patients being treated in a local hospital. While the authorities in Western Australia were quick to paint the unidentified teen as a malicious, balaclava-wearing hacker spending his idle days cracking into secure systems, a …read more
An exposed ElasticSearch server belonging to Software MacKiev put 60,000 users of Ancestry.com’s Family Tree Maker software at risk. Continue reading Leak Exposes Private Data of Genealogy Service Users
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Privacy advocates may question the use of genealogy data in forensics, but defense attorneys in this case did not. Continue reading Relatives’ DNA in geneology database leads to murder conviction
The popular platform Family Tree DNA is piggybacking forensics’ use of genealogy databases to sell its product. Continue reading A DNA Ancestry Website Is Asking People to Join to Help Hunt Criminals
An unspecified “private” server was found with the account data of users who signed up for the service, in the largest breach since Equifax last year. Continue reading DNA Testing Service MyHeritage Leaks User Data of 92 Million Customers