Some 46 million records stolen from children’s gaming service Animal Jam have found its way onto the dark web following a hack of the company in October. Animal Jam is a popular online virtual world created by WildWorks Inc. with more than 130 million users catering to children between the ages of four and eight. ...

A recent ransomware attack targeting furniture maker Steelcase Inc. caused the company to shut down operations for two weeks, according to information the company submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In the SEC filing today, Steelcase said it detected a cyberattack on its information technology systems Oct. 22. The company said it implemented a series ...

December is shaping up to be a busy month for tech-related initial public offerings, with Airbnb Inc. likely to be joined by DoorDash Inc., Roblox, Wish and Affirm according to reports today. Airbnb was reported to be releasing its IPO details for a December listing this week according to a report Nov. 5. Speculation around when the ...

PayPal Holdings Inc. is now offering cryptocurrency services to all eligible account holders in the U.S. after announcing a soft launch of the service Oct. 21. The service allows users to buy, hold and sell for bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin within their existing PayPal accounts. Using the service is as simple as account ...

Some 5.8 million customer records stolen from Singapore-based hotel company RedDoorz have been found for sale on the dark web following the company being hacked in September. RedDoorz, formally named Commeasure Pte. Ltd., which offers hotels across Southeast Asia, disclosed the hack Sept. 28. It said at the time only that it was aware that one of its information ...

Source code allegedly belonging to commercial penetration testing software Cobalt Strike has been published on GitHub, potentially providing a new path for hackers to attack companies. Penetration testing, usually abbreviated as pen testing, has legitimate uses as a security tool to test security but can also be used by bad actors to attack a company. ...

Snap Inc. has acquired Israeli voice assistant solutions startup Voca.ai Ltd. for $70 million, according to reports today from Calcalist and Globes referencing people with knowledge of the deal. Neither Snap nor Voca.ai has yet confirmed the reports. Founded in 2017, Voca.ai offers an artificial intelligence-powered voice assistant platform designed to free up human agents ...

The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has been making regular headlines for its ransomware attacks on multiple companies in recent months, but in a new twist, the group has taken to advertising on social media to pressure one of its victims into paying. The victim in this case is Italian drinks maker Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A., best known simply ...

Virtual events platform startup Hopin Ltd. said today it has raised $125 million in new funding to scale up its platform and support ongoing development efforts. The Series B round was led by IVP and Tiger Global and included Coatue, DFJ Growth, Accel, Northzone, Salesforce Ventures and Seedcamp. Founded in 2019, Hopin offers an all-in-one live online events platform ...

Shares in Lyft Inc. rose in after-hours trading today after the ride-hailing company beat analysts’ expectations for its third-quarter earnings and said it’s on track to be profitable by the end of 2021. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Lyft reported revenue fell 48% from a year ago, to $499.7 million, but that was up ...