{"id":212214,"date":"2025-04-23T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dna-sequencing-at-risk-hackers-could-exploit-genomic-data-vulnerabilities"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:12:23","slug":"dna-sequencing-at-risk-hackers-could-exploit-genomic-data-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/dna-sequencing-at-risk-hackers-could-exploit-genomic-data-vulnerabilities","title":{"rendered":"DNA sequencing at risk: Hackers could exploit genomic data vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-sequencing-at-risk-hackers-could-exploit-genomic-data-vulnerabilities.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS)\u2014the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and gene research\u2014could become a prime target for hackers.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10930454\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in <i>IEEE Access<\/i> highlights growing concerns over how this powerful sequencing tool\u2014if left unsecured\u2014could be exploited for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/data+breaches\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data breaches<\/a>, privacy violations, and even future biothreats.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Dr. Nasreen Anjum from the University of Portsmouth\u2019s School of Computing, it is the first comprehensive research study of cyber-biosecurity threats across the entire NGS workflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS)\u2014the same technology which is powering the development of tailor-made medicines, cancer diagnostics, infectious disease tracking, and gene research\u2014could become a prime target for hackers. A study published in IEEE Access highlights growing concerns over how this powerful sequencing tool\u2014if left unsecured\u2014could be exploited for data breaches, privacy violations, and even future [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}