
Zack Whittaker
Security Editor at TechCrunch
Security editor @TechCrunch • +1 646.755.8849 • [email protected] • https://t.co/X6GJDYwaBE
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1 week ago |
techcrunch.com | Zack Whittaker |Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Fashion retail giant Victoria’s Secret said it is addressing a “security incident,” as its website and online orders face ongoing disruption. Victoria’s Secret posted the brief statement on its website Wednesday. The company’s outages began earlier on Monday, as users have reported not being able to access Victoria’s Secret’s website.
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1 month ago |
techcrunch.com | Zack Whittaker
A digital rights group blasted the Florida bill, but lawmakers voted to advanced the draft law.
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2 months ago |
techcrunch.com | Zack Whittaker |Kyle Wiggers |Amanda Silberling
A consumer-grade spyware operation called SpyX was hit by a data breach last year, TechCrunch has learned. The breach reveals that SpyX and two other related mobile apps had records on almost two million people at the time of the breach, including thousands of Apple users. The data breach dates back to June 2024 but has not been previously reported, and there is no indication that SpyX’s operators ever notified its customers or those targeted by the spyware.
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2 months ago |
techcrunch.com | Zack Whittaker |Tim De Chant |Kyle Wiggers
Amazon will not say if it plans to take action against three phone surveillance apps that are storing troves of individuals’ private phone data on Amazon’s cloud servers, despite TechCrunch notifying the tech giant weeks earlier that it was hosting the stolen phone data.
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2 months ago |
techcrunch.com | Kirsten Korosec |Zack Whittaker |Charles Rollet |Sean O'Kane |Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Elon Musk has spent decades building a universe of companies that has served as an incubator for up-and-coming engineers and a proving ground for his inner circle. That universe — an ecosystem of Silicon Valley tech titans, veterans of his companies like Tesla and SpaceX, and a crop of fresh-faced hackers and software engineers — has now collided with the U.S. federal government.
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