More than 30 million payment card records stolen in the hack of East Coast convenience store and gas station operator Wawa Inc. in December have appeared for sale on a “dark web” marketplace. The hack included all of Wawa’s 850 locations and involved the theft of customer names, card numbers and expiration dates at both at ...

As the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread through mainland China, Apple Inc. and Tesla Inc. have issued warnings that the virus could affect sales in the first quarter — and they’re unlikely to be the last companies affected by the virus. Apple was the first to issue a warning, noting during a conference call following ...

The U.S. Department of Interior today grounded all of its nonemergency drones over concerns that the aircraft present a risk to national security. Though not specifically naming China as the risk, The Wall Street Journal reported that the decision stems from concerns that drones made in China or with Chinese parts could be used by the Chinese ...

Tesla Inc. stock surged nearly 12% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the electric car maker beat analysts’ predictions for its fourth-quarter earnings. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, Tesla booked revenue of $7.38 billion, up 2% over the same quarter last year. Profit declined, though, to $105 million or 56 cents a share from $140 ...

Lab testing firm Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings, better known as LabCorp, is back in the news again for all the wrong reasons: TechCrunch today reported that the company left thousands of medical documents exposed online. LabCorp was last in the news in June when 7.7 million patient records were stolen. They included patient names, dates of birth, addresses, phone ...

Consultancy firm Accenture Plc today announced a multiyear deal for Google Cloud to be its cloud partner for its INTIENT life sciences industry platform. INTIENT is a platform for biopharma firms to gain insights and collaborate with continuity and flow of information across the enterprise. The platform enables the application of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has been ordered to suspend an account holding 96 bitcoin, about $896,000, by the U.K. High Court after accusations that the owner of the account is linked to a ransomware attack targeting a firm in Canada. According to a Jan. 17 court filing, the ransomware case involved more than 1,000 computers at an unnamed Canadian ...

In a partial snub to the U.S. government, the U.K. will allow Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to participate in the country’s 5G rollout, though with some restrictions. While giving approval to Huawei, the U.K. government has designated the company a “high -risk vendor” and will exclude the company from sensitive “core” parts of 5G and gigabit-cable ...

Bitcoin spinoff Bitcoin Gold has suffered two so-called 51% attacks, but in a surprising twist its price has actually surged since then. A 51% attack is one attempted by a group of miners controlling more than 50 percent of a given cryptocurrency’s mining hash rate, a measure of how much computing power the cryptocurrency network is ...

Hackers are actively targeting a critical flaw in software from Citrix Systems Inc. first uncovered last month, and users are being warned that even if they patch now, their systems may still be compromised. Formally known as CVE-2019-19781, the flaw exposes networks using the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Gateway products to unauthorized access and hacking. ...