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Atlas Menu, a GTA V cheat service, was hacked exposing ~64,000 accounts with emails, usernames, scrambled passwords, IPs and support tickets; data was published on GitHub, while the site claimed “secure authentication” though its own site is down.
Hackers impersonating Signal Support are attempting to steal users’ chat backups by pressuring them to reveal recovery keys, prompting warnings about potential regulatory breach-notification obligations if data is exposed.
Pay Tel left a Microsoft Azure storage bucket publicly accessible, exposing over 300,000 driver’s licenses and inmate communications; researchers alerted the company in May, Pay Tel has not publicly acknowledged the incident, raising regulatory and reputational risk.
CrowdStrike and Google helped takedown the Glassworm botnet that infected 300+ GitHub repos and used multiple C2 channels, highlighting open-source supply-chain risk and unclear legal authority for takedowns.
A data-rich roundup of funding rounds, valuations, and revenue milestones across SolarSquare, Peec AI, Deep Fission, SpaceX, and high-profile AI/security moves, paired with major privacy/security feature updates from Apple/Google/WhatsApp that reshape the regulatory/security landscape for users and investors.
TechCrunch coverage spans a privacy-forward view of Amazon’s Bee wearable and high-growth bets in AI/energy startups (Peec AI, SolarSquare) plus high-profile IPOs (Deep Fission, SpaceX) with concrete funding, ARR, and valuation data.
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