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  • TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

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    Amanda Silberling, Zack Whittaker Image Credits:TeaOnHer (modified) TeaOnHer, an app designed for men to share photos and information about women they have supposedly dated, has exposed users’ personal information, including government IDs and selfies, TechCrunch can confirm. The app, which launched on the Apple App Store earlier this week, is a response to another viral…

  • Coinbase says its data breach affects at least 69,000 customers

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    Coinbase said at least 69,461 customers had personal and financial information stolen during a months-long data breach that it disclosed last week. The crypto giant confirmed the number of affected customers in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Wednesday, as required by the state’s data breach notification law.  Coinbase’s filing said the breach dates back to…

  • Trump fires head of National Security Agency and Cyber Command

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    Zack Whittaker Image Credits:NSA / Getty Images The Trump administration has fired Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, several news publications reported overnight into Friday.  Haugh, a career military official, led the National Security Agency, the U.S.’ main wiretapping and intelligence gathering agency, for little more than a year…

  • Hackers are hijacking WordPress sites to push Windows and Mac malware

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    Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2:03 PM PST · January 29, 2025 Hackers are exploiting outdated versions of WordPress and plug-ins to alter thousands of websites in an attempt to trick visitors to download and install malware, security researchers have found. The hacking campaign is still “very much live,” Simon Wijckmans, the founder…

  • Columbus says ransomware gang stole personal data of 500,000 Ohio residents

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    Carly Page 6:51 AM PST · November 4, 2024 Image Credits:Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group / Getty Images The City of Columbus, Ohio’s state capital, has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of 500,000 residents during a July ransomware attack.  In a filing with Maine’s attorney general, Columbus confirmed that a “foreign cyber threat actor”…