by Amanda Fiorilla | Vice Chair of Data Privacy | Apr 1, 2025 | Blog, Data Privacy, Homepage
Two Breaches, One Troubling Pattern In March 2025, two separate but equally alarming data breaches involving Oracle came to light. Alleged Oracle Cloud Legacy Database Breach A hacker operating under the alias “rose87168” claimed to have compromised over six million...
by Amanda Fiorilla | Vice Chair of Data Privacy | Mar 28, 2025 | Blog, Data Privacy, Homepage
23andMe filed for bankruptcy after a major data breach. Learn what happens to your DNA data and what legal protections may apply. 23andMe was once all the rage. Everyone wanted to uncover their genetic makeup, health predispositions, and family history. It was a...
by Amanda Fiorilla | Vice Chair of Data Privacy | Mar 28, 2025 | Blog, Data Privacy, Homepage
A simple mistake gave a journalist front-row access to U.S. military secrets. But the real scandal? This kind of breach happens all the time—just not usually by our government. Earlier this week, The Atlantic reported a surprising breach of protocol: a top-level U.S....
by Amanda Fiorilla | Vice Chair of Data Privacy | Nov 18, 2021 | Blog
23andMe rose to success by selling at home DNA tests ultimately purchased by more than 11 million individuals. By some estimates 1 in 5 Americans have handed over their DNA to 23andMe or companies like it.[1] But for many of these individuals, while they may believe...
by Amanda Fiorilla | Vice Chair of Data Privacy | May 15, 2020 | Blog
Data breaches are occurring at an alarming frequency. For instance, the University of Maryland estimates that there are approximately 2,244 hacker attacks per day. In the first half of 2019 alone, researchers believe that more than 4 billion records were exposed as a...
