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Allianz Life says "majority" of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack.

@TechCrunch@mstdn.social reports: "The insurance giant would not say if it had received any communication from the hackers, such as a ransom note. The company also would not attribute the breach to a hacking group."

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#Cybersecurity #Hacking #Tech #CyberAttack #Insurance

 

Tea, the app that allows women to post anonymously about men they’ve dated, announced Friday that 72,000 images – selfies, photo IDs and pics from posts, comments and DMs. It’s almost enough to make you want to go back to the old-fashioned way of dating. @Techcrunch has more:

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#Tech #CyberSecurity #DatingApps #Tea

 

The world of cybersecurity is not immune to the effects of AI slop. “People across the cybersecurity industry have raised concerns about AI slop bug bounty reports, meaning reports that claim to have found vulnerabilities that do not actually exist, because they were created with a large language model that simply made up the vulnerability, and then packaged it into a professional-looking writeup,” Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes. Read more from @Techcrunch:

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#Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #CyberSecurity

 

India’s largest crypto exchange CoinDCX has confirmed that one of its operational accounts was compromised in a recent security breach. @Techcrunch has more, including the millions hackers reportedly made off with.

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#Tech #Crypto #CyberSecurity #Hacked #CoinDCX

 

Microsoft Sharepoint server vulnerability puts an estimated 10,000 organizations at risk.

@Engadget reports: "The software giant released an emergency patch but the flaw is being actively exploited."

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#Microsoft #Cybersecurity #SharePoint #Tech #Hacking

 

Can an “ethical” spyware company justify providing its tech to ICE, the U.S.’s immigration enforcement arm that has been carrying out large-scale raids across the country? @Techcrunch explores:

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#Tech #TechNews #SpyWare #CyberSecurity

 

Was the FBI’s “raw” Jeffrey Epstein prison video modified? @WIRED dives into the “ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.”

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#Tech #Epstein #CyberSecurity #EpsteinFiles

 

Ransomware attack causes outage at Ingram Micro, a U.S. tech distribution and managed services company. Read about it from @Techcrunch:

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#Tech #CyberSecurity #Ransomware #Hacking

 

A security flaw in a covert surveillance app exposed passwords for 62,000 users. @ArsTechnica has more:

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#Tech #Apps #CyberSecurity #Hacking

 

A prolific hacking group known as Scattered Spider is targeting the transportation sector, including airlines, the FBI and cybersecurity firms say. Read about it @Techcrunch:

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#Tech #CyberSecurity #Hacking #Internet

 

Earlier this month, hackers stole an unknown amount of customer information from the US insurance company Aflac, @Techcrunch reports. Here’s more on the data breach, when it occurred and what type of info was taken.

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#Tech #CyberSecurity #Hacking #Technology

 

What to know about the reports of the billions of login credentials that were exposed online, from @BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange:

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#Tech #CyberSecurity #Computers #Technology

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