Noah Rasmussen

Legacy Vulnerabilities & the Consequences of the Oracle Breach

In March 2025, Oracle faced two major breaches, with its Cloud system exposing millions of records and its Health platform compromising patient data due to unpatched legacy servers exploited since January. The company’s delayed notifications and lack of transparency, despite allegedly knowing about the issues by February, have drawn sharp criticism and fueled distrust. The breaches have sparked widespread concern, prompting heightened oversight and discussions among key regulatory bodies.

X Sees Widespread Outages Monday Following Cyberattack

Users of the social media site X experienced outages on Monday morning, continuing into the afternoon. They encountered issues with logging in, viewing posts and profiles, and loading images. According to Downdetector, an outage tracking site, reports of disruptions began to emerge in the early morning EST. Three additional spikes in outages were recorded throughout the day. The number of reports started to decline steadily around 2:30 p.m. ET, and the site largely returned to normal functionality.