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Indian grocery startup KiranaPro was hacked and its servers deleted, CEO confirms

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Indian grocery delivery startup KiranaPro has been hacked and all its data has been wiped, the company’s founder confirmed to TechCrunch. The destroyed data included the company’s app code and its servers containing banks of sensitive customer information, including their names, mailing addresses, and payment details, KiranaPro co-founder and CEO Deepak Ravindran told TechCrunch. The […]

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Health giant Kettering still facing disruption weeks after ransomware attack

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Kettering Health, a network with dozens of medical and emergency centers in Ohio, is still working to recover and return to normal operations two weeks after a ransomware attack prompted “a system-wide technology outage.”  On Monday, Kettering Health said in an update that it had restored “core components” of its electronic health record system provided

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NSO Group asks judge for new trial, calling $167 million in damages ‘outrageous’

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In May, a jury ruled that spyware maker NSO Group must pay $167 million in damages to WhatsApp for a 2019 hacking campaign that targeted more than 1,400 people. Calling the damages ruling “outrageous,” “blatantly unlawful,” and “unconstitutionally excessive,” NSO Group now wants the judge overseeing the case to reduce the amount, or order a

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White House investigating how Trump’s chief of staff’s phone was hacked

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The White House is investigating after one or more people reportedly accessed the contacts from the personal phone of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and used the information to contact other top officials and impersonate her.  Wiles reportedly told people that her phone was hacked. The Wall Street Journal first reported the hack

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US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams

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The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called “pig butchering” crypto scams that have led to $200 million in losses for Americans victims.  On Thursday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the sanctions, saying FUNNULL is “linked to the majority of virtual currency investment

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A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding

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This month, cybersecurity company Thinkst will mark its 10th anniversary since the launch of its now-flagship product, Canary. The company debuted Canary after seeing companies spend millions of dollars on cybersecurity products, yet were still taking months or longer to realize that they had been breached. Thinkst believed it could make a digital tripwire product

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Victoria’s Secret hit by outages as it battles security incident

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Fashion retail giant Victoria’s Secret said it is addressing a “security incident,” as its website and online orders face ongoing disruption.  Victoria’s Secret posted the brief statement on its website Wednesday. The company’s outages began earlier on Monday, as users have reported not being able to access Victoria’s Secret’s website. “We immediately enacted our response

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Data broker giant LexisNexis says breach exposed personal information of over 364,000 people

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a data broker that collects and uses consumers’ personal data to help its paying corporate customers detect possible risk and fraud, has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 364,000 people.  The company said in a filing with Maine’s attorney general that the breach, dating back to December 25, 2024, allowed a

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