1+ hour, 15+ min ago  (141+ words) NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James and 42 other attorneys general have secured an $18 million settlement with 23andMe over a data breach that exposed millions of customers’ genetic information. RELATED: Consumer Alert: Attorneys General sue to protect genetic data of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (613+ words) ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Regional Health patients received letters about a data breach, but the letters themselves looked like scams. The letters were sent by a third-party vendor and incorrectly identified the hospital system as “Rochester Regional Medical Center,” which doesn’t exist....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (771+ words) That was the case even though it wasn’t a novel germ that the world had never seen before, like the virus that caused the coronavirus pandemic. It was a hantavirus, one of a family of viruses that have been known…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (170+ words) HOPEWELL, N.Y. — Ontario County Public Health (OCPH) said it’s investigating a possible case of locally-acquired hantavirus. OCPH says there’s no connection to the current cruise ship infections, and no risk to the general public. Symptoms range from mild to severe, with…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (426+ words) The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals. Instructure, the parent…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (15+ words) Town of Greece and Green Sheen paint company team up in paint recycling event WHEC.com...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (302+ words) ROCHESTER, N.Y. — News10NBC is investigating another hack of a local Wegmans account, and it’s the banks that are catching them. Wegmans says there was no system-wide breach. But on Monday, News10NBC reported on a customer whose account was used for an $800 online order…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (353+ words) GREECE, N.Y. — An email address in the Greece Assessor’s Office was hacked and sent out a virus to some people. News10NBC’s Adelisa Badzic spoke with town officials at Greece Town Hall about the hack. The town said it already fixed the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (427+ words) ONTARIO, N.Y. — A Wegmans customer had her account hacked and charged $900 for items picked up at a Brooklyn store. Megan DeRose of Ontario in Wayne County received a fraud alert text from her bank last Monday asking if she spent $130. After…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (261+ words) “Kash Patel, the current head of the FBI, who once saw his name displayed with pride on the agency’s headquarters, will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims,” said a message posted Friday from the group…...