cybersecurity

Event startup Partiful wasn’t stripping GPS locations from user-uploaded photos

Social /

Social event planning app Partiful, which calls itself “Facebook events for hot people,” has firmly replaced Facebook as the go-to platform for sending party invitations. But what Partiful also has in common with Facebook is that it’s collecting a tsunami of user data, and Partiful could have done better at keeping that data secure. On […]

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Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases

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A notorious predominantly English-speaking hacking group has launched a website to extort its victims, threatening to release about a billion records stolen from companies who store their customers’ data in cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. The loosely organized group, which has been known as Lapsus$, Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters, have published a dedicated data leak

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Hackers are sending extortion emails to executives after claiming Oracle apps’ data breach

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Google says hackers associated with a prolific ransomware group are sending extortion emails to executives at “numerous” large organizations after claiming to have stolen their sensitive information from a suite of business software products developed by Oracle. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, Google’s head of cybercrime analysis Genevieve Stark said the hackers began sending

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Data breach at Canadian airline WestJet affects 1.2M passengers

Transportation /

Canada’s second largest airline WestJet said the personal information of 1.2 million passengers was stolen in a cyberattack and data breach earlier this year. The airline disclosed the number of affected passengers in a filing with Maine’s attorney general, which confirmed 240 residents in the state were also affected. According to the notice, the stolen

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A breach every month raises doubts about South Korea’s digital defenses

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South Korea is world-famous for its blazing-fast internet, near-universal broadband coverage, and as a leader in digital innovation, hosting global tech brands like Hyundai, LG, and Samsung. But this very success has made the country a prime target for hackers and exposed how fragile its cybersecurity defenses remain.   The country is reeling from a string

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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans

Government & Policy /

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has blocked an effort to pass legislation that would have extended data privacy protections for federal lawmakers and public officials to everyone in the United States. On Monday night, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked the U.S. Senate for unanimous consent from fellow senators to pass his legislation, S.2850. Wyden’s bill, if

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UK government bails out Jaguar Land Rover with £1.5B loan after hack disrupts vehicle production for weeks

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The U.K. government has confirmed it will guarantee a commercial bank loan of £1.5 billion ($2bn) for carmaking giant Jaguar Land Rover after a hack forced the company to shut down its carmaking production lines and left downstream suppliers at risk of bankruptcy. In a statement on Sunday, U.K. ministers said that the government-backed loan

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Wiz chief technologist Ami Luttwak on how AI is transforming cyberattacks 

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“One of the key things to understand about cybersecurity is that it’s a mind game,” Ami Luttwak, chief technologist at cybersecurity firm Wiz, told TechCrunch on a recent episode of Equity. “If there’s a new technology wave coming, there are new opportunities for [attackers] to start using it.”  As enterprises rush to embed AI into

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TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

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For years, “know your customer” checks have become commonplace on the internet, often by way of sharing a copy of your government-issued ID and a selfie to confirm that it’s really you, to access a website or app, or to purchase certain goods.   Nowadays, age verification laws taking effect across the U.S., the United

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Thousands of Indian bank transfer records found spilling online after security lapse

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A data spill from an unsecured cloud server has exposed hundreds of thousands of sensitive bank transfer documents in India, revealing account numbers, transaction figures, and individuals’ contact details. Researchers at cybersecurity firm UpGuard discovered in late August a publicly accessible Amazon-hosted storage server containing 273,000 PDF documents relating to bank transfers of Indian customers. 

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