U.S. Federal Investigators Probe Intrusion at Software Auditing Company

U.S. federal investigators are probing an intrusion at San Francisco-based software auditing company Codecov that affected an unknown number of its 29,000 customers, the firm said, raising the specter of knock-on breaches at companies elsewhere. Codecov said in a statement hackers began tampering with its software — which is used across the tech industry to help test code for mistakes and vulnerabilities — on Jan. 31.