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Zack Whittaker

@zackwhittaker
462 posts
2025-02-04
Incredible reporting by Mark Keierleber at The 74 on the consultants, lawyers and PR flacks who are hired to keep hacks, data breaches and massive cyberattacks at schools hidden and out of the public eye, often at the expense of the kids whose data was stolen.  —  www.the74million.org/article/ kept...
2025-02-04 View on X
Wired

An investigation into 300+ cyberattacks against US K-12 schools since 2020 shows how they can withhold details from students and parents whose data was stolen

An investigation into more than 300 cyberattacks against US K-12 schools over the past five years shows how schools … Bluesky: @zackwhittaker and @dell . Mastodon: @douglevin@infos...

2025-01-25
The ransomware attack on Change Healthcare was one of the biggest data breaches of 2024 — and believed to be the largest theft of medical data in U.S. history.  We have a timeline of how the entire ransomware attack and aftermath went down.  —  techcrunch.com/2024/12/18/h...
2025-01-25 View on X
TechCrunch

UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M

UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates.

2025-01-14
Incredible reporting from @lorenzofb.bsky.social on how Barcelona became an unlikely hub for spyware startups and exploit makers.  Critics say spyware makers on Europe's front door is a problem, given human rights abuses involving spyware deployed against EU citizens.  —  techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/h...
2025-01-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Sources and business records detail how Barcelona has emerged as an unlikely hub for spyware companies, raising concerns from digital rights groups

Toward the end of 2023, an Israeli security researcher from Tel Aviv said that he was approached on LinkedIn with an opportunity to work abroad with “good pay.” Bluesky: @zackwhitt...

2024-12-28
New, w/ @lorenzofb.bsky.social: Data-loss prevention startup Cyberhaven was hacked to publish a malicious update to its Chrome extension, affecting potentially thousands of users.  A security researcher says other big Chrome extensions were hacked in the same campaign.  —  techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/c...
2024-12-28 View on X
Reuters

Experts say hackers compromised several companies' Chrome browser extensions, including Cyberhaven's, in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December

Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December …

2024-12-16
New, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: Amnesty says it's identified the first “forensically documented spyware infections” enabled by the use of Cellebrite phone-unlocking tools.  The spyware was discovered on a Serbian journalist's phone after a routine traffic stop.  —  techcrunch.com/2024/12/15/s...
2024-12-16 View on X
404 Media

Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware

Authorities in Serbia have repeatedly used Cellebrite tools to unlock mobile phones so they could then infect them with potent malware …

2024-12-13
New: Yahoo has laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned.  (Yahoo is TechCrunch's parent company.)  —  Yahoo confirmed the layoffs, including the elimination of its red team.  —  More: techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/y...
2024-12-13 View on X
TechCrunch

Sources: Yahoo laid off or lost via attrition 40 to 50 people from its 200-strong cybersecurity team in 2024, as it outsources its “red team” under its new CTO

known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned.  (Yahoo is TechCrunch's parent company.)  —  Yahoo confirmed the layoffs, including the elimination of its red ...

2023-03-25
Two victim organizations told TechCrunch that they only learned that their data had been stolen after they each received ransom demands. Both organizations said they had been assured by Fortra that their data was unaffected by the ransomware attack. https://techcrunch.com/...
2023-03-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Sources: Fortra told GoAnywhere customers that their data was safe after a ransomware attack by the Clop gang, but two said they later received ransom demands

But then came the ransom demands. … Tweets: Keith / @kwm : Clop, a ransomware group known to use Cobalt Strike, claims to have breached 130+ companies via GoAnywhere GoAnywhere is ...

2023-02-22
Breaking: The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling terabytes of internal U.S. military emails to the internet for two weeks. The server wasn't protected with a password, a security researcher told TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/...
2023-02-22 View on X
TechCrunch

A researcher found a now-secure US DOD Azure database without a password for two weeks that had years' worth of military emails with sensitive personnel info

2023-01-22
New: A hack at ODIN Intelligence, which provides tech and apps — like SweepWizard — to police departments, has exposed a huge trove of police files, including tactical plans of police raids, surveillance, and use of facial recognition. https://techcrunch.com/...
2023-01-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Hackers leak police raid plans, confidential reports, AWS private keys, and other sensitive data from the servers of ODIN, which makes apps for the US police

Leaked files reveal tactical plans for police raids, surveillance, and facial recognition  —  Detailed tactical plans …

2022-11-01
Twitter's ongoing verification chaos is now a cybersecurity problem. It looks like some people (including in our newsroom) are getting crude phishing emails trying to trick people into turning over their Twitter credentials. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-01 View on X
New Statesman

Elon Musk's plan to monetize Twitter verification would generate little revenue, even at $20/month, and could create myriad issues, including enabling spammers

Elon Musk's latest brainwave risks alienating the users Twitter depends on and would expose it to lawsuits.

2022-10-08
We were briefed on this news earlier this week, but couldn't verify Meta's claims. We asked Meta about this before the embargo lifted this morning but we didn't get a satisfactory response as to how Meta discovered these allegedly violating apps. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-08 View on X
Engadget

Meta warns 1M Facebook users that their account info may have been stolen by 400+ apps on the App Store and Google Play that have a “Login with Facebook” button

delete them now Priya Singh / BGR India : Meta warns against Android, iOS apps for stealing users' Facebook password Justin Luna / Neowin : Meta warns Facebook users about password...

From what we did see, these apps were crap, buggy, offered basic functionality, and packed full of ads. But without evidence, or an explanation of how Meta reached its conclusions, we're just taking Meta's word for it.
2022-10-08 View on X
Engadget

Meta warns 1M Facebook users that their account info may have been stolen by 400+ apps on the App Store and Google Play that have a “Login with Facebook” button

delete them now Priya Singh / BGR India : Meta warns against Android, iOS apps for stealing users' Facebook password Justin Luna / Neowin : Meta warns Facebook users about password...

2022-10-06
New: China has cracked down on several popular censorship circumvention tools in the past few days, according to internet monitors, ahead of the government's party congress later this month. w/ @ritacyliao. https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-10-06 View on X
TechCrunch

Two weeks ahead of China's 20th communist party congress, censors seem to be blocking TLS-based circumvention tools that locals use to bypass the Great Firewall

TechCrunch :

2022-09-04
When reached by email, Samsung (via crisis PR firm Edelman) has declined to tell us how many people are affected by this data breach, what specific data was taken — or what “demographic data” includes — and why it took more than a month to alert customers. https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-09-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022

New: Samsung says customer data was stolen by a hacker in a July data breach. It was announced today, Friday, hours before the start of a long holiday weekend in the U.S. https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-09-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022

Samsung said in its statement that Social Security numbers and credit/debit card numbers were not affected by the breach. It's not clear why Samsung has Social Security numbers to begin with. More on this breach as it becomes available: https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022

2022-09-03
When reached by email, Samsung (via crisis PR firm Edelman) has declined to tell us how many people are affected by this data breach, what specific data was taken — or what “demographic data” includes — and why it took more than a month to alert customers. https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-09-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022

U.S. electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers' personal information.

Samsung said in its statement that Social Security numbers and credit/debit card numbers were not affected by the breach. It's not clear why Samsung has Social Security numbers to begin with. More on this breach as it becomes available: https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022

U.S. electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers' personal information.

New: Samsung says customer data was stolen by a hacker in a July data breach. It was announced today, Friday, hours before the start of a long holiday weekend in the U.S. https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-09-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022

U.S. electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers' personal information.

2022-08-27
New: Twilio's breach just keeps getting worse, now confirming that hackers also compromised the accounts of nearly 100 users of its Authy two-factor authentication app, reports @carlypage_. https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Twilio says hackers accessed the accounts of 93 users of its 2FA app Authy as part of its recent breach, effectively letting the attackers generate login codes

U.S. messaging giant Twilio has confirmed hackers also compromised the accounts of some Authy users as part of a wider breach of Twilio's systems.