Genetic testing giant 23andMe confirmed that a data scraping incident resulted in hackers gaining access to sensitive user information and selling it on the dark web. The information of nearly 7 million 23andMe users was offered for sale on a cybercriminal forum this week. The information included origin estimation, phenotype, health information, photos, identification data […]
What is screen scraping? Screen scraping is a data collection method used to gather information shown on a display to use for another purpose. Typically, screen scraping is used to collect data from one application to then translate it to another — or, more controversially, to steal data. Visual data is collected as plain text […]