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Musk will move X platform, SpaceX to Texas over new California law
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his social media platform X and space engineering rocket company SpaceX will move to Texas after California’s governor passes a controversial law affecting school-age children.
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Millions of Rite Aid customers’ names, IDs exposed
Attackers impersonated an employee of Rite Aid, a top US drugstore chain, to access the personal data of over two million of its customers.
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Trump picks Silicon Valley insider as Vice Presidential running mate
Former US President Donald Trump has announced the tech sector friendly J.D. Vance, a US senator from Ohio, as his pick for Vice Presidential nominee Monday. Will Big Tech will be on the chopping block for this potential duo?
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Copycat assassin accounts spread across social media after Trump shooting
Copycat assassins, Russian trolls, conspiracy theorists, and misogynists take to social media after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
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Germany finishes dumping $3 billion worth of bitcoin seized from Movie2k
Significant bitcoin market price fluctuations have been caused by the Saxony public prosecutor’s office since June 19th.
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AT&T pays threat actor $370,000 to delete stolen data – media
The multinational telecommunications company reportedly paid hackers almost $400,000 to delete the data stolen from nearly all AT&T customers.
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Rite Aid breached (again) according to new ransomware claim
The Rite Aid Corporation, an American chain of drugstores located in almost every town and city across 16 states, has allegedly been hit by ransomware.
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Nearly all customers affected by new AT&T data breach
AT&T, the American multinational telecommunication company, has said that customer data was illegally downloaded from a third-party cloud platform, and nearly all customers are affected.
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‘Magic soap’ producer discloses data breach, but details are scarce
All One God Faith, a.k.a. Dr Bronner’s, has suffered a data security incident that “potentially exposed personal information.
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UEFA 2024 finals cause dramatic drop in internet traffic
EU Football fans watching their home teams compete in the UEFA European Championship are significantly impacting internet traffic trends within own countries, Cloudflare analysts found.
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NATO to create its own cyber defense center
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced plans to install a new cyber defense center at its headquarters in Belgium – aimed at protecting allied cyberspace operations.
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Millions of Advance Auto Parts job applicants had their details exposed
A wave of attacks on the cloud provider Snowflake exposed the sensitive information of millions who applied for a job at Advance Auto Parts.
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Scam victims hooked up to EEG for art campaign
The old saying, “life imitates art,” applies to all realms of life. It certainly does in the context of Gen’s new artistic campaign, ‘Scam Artists.’
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Heritage denies hack, calls it a troll-led attention-seeking campaign
The Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025, says that it was not hacked and that SiegedSec is exaggerating what has actually happened.
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Dallas County says 200,000 people affected in data breach
In an update about last year’s cyberattack, Dallas County officials have said that around 200,000 people may have had their personal information compromised.
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Microsoft relinquishes OpenAI board seat to avoid antitrust scrutiny
Microsoft has ditched its OpenAI board observer seat to avoid ruffling antitrust regulators in both the US and the UK, amid concern over the tech giant’s control over the Sam Altman-run artificial intelligence tech startup.
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Project 2025 makers had their data leaked by “gay furry hackers”
Attackers have released data supposedly taken from a conservative US think tank. Researchers believe that malicious actors could exploit the data for targeted attacks.
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US Justice Dept disrupts Russian social media influence operation
The US Justice Department said on Tuesday that it disrupted a Russian operation that used fake social media accounts enhanced by artificial intelligence to covertly spread pro-Kremlin messages in the United States and abroad.
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Ticketmaster finally notifies customers, omits important details
Ticketmaster has finally contacted its customers regarding a recent breach that exposed 560 million users.
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Poll: most Americans want safe AI rather than winning the race with China
The tech industry has repeatedly claimed that AI regulation might hurt American efforts to compete with China. But a new poll has shown that US voters don’t actually want to be part of that particular race.
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