Aspire News, an app designed to assist domestic violence victims, has suffered a data breach with recordings from victims found on unsecured cloud storage. The breach was discovered by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar at vpnMentor, which revealed it today. The data on the misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 bucket included more than 4,000 voice recordings ...

Messaging startup Telegram Group Inc. is close to settling its case with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its sale of Gram cryptocurrency for its TON blockchain network in 2018. Under the terms of a proposed settlement made public today, Telegram has agreed to pay a penalty of $18.5 million to the SEC as well ...

Virtual events platform startup Hopin Ltd. said today it has raised $40 million in new funding to scale up its platform to meet soaring demand driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Series A round was led by IVP and included Salesforce Ventures, Accel, Northzone, Seedcamp and Slack Fund. Founded in 2019, Hopin offers an all-in-one live ...

As computing power continues to grow at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, it allows hackers and other bad actors to reach new records when it comes to cyberattacks. Last week, Amazon Web Services Inc. detailed how it mitigated the largest ever record distributed denial-of-service attack. Today, Akamai Technologies Inc. detailed how it ...

Business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan Inc. has suffered a data breach and data stolen from the firm appeared for sale on a hacker forum. The Mountain View, California-based company has a global presence with 40 offices across six continents. It offers services such as market research, analysis, growth strategy consulting and corporate training. The data ...

Amazon.com Inc. has established a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit to investigate sellers who sell fake products on its platform. The unit, which includes former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators and data analysts, has as its primary goal preventing counterfeit products from being listed on Amazon.com. The secondary goal of the unit is to file civil lawsuits and ...

Mobile enterprise collaboration startup Librestream Technologies Inc. announced today it has raised $24 million in new funding to accelerate customer acquisition, hire more people and expand its global reach. The Series D round was led by the Canadian Business Growth Fund and included Pender Fund, Emerald Technology Ventures, Volvo Group, Export Development Canada and a number of existing ...

Open-source conversational artificial intelligence startup Rasa Technologies Inc. has raised $26 million in new funding to invest in continuing growth, AI research and developer and community education. The Series B round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included the Cultural Leadership Fund, Accel, 468 Capital, Basis Set Ventures and Mango Capital. Founded in 2016, Rasa offers ...

Twitter Inc. apologized today after it discovered that billing information from business customers had been potentially exposed because of the way the site caches data. Described as a “data security incident” by Twitter, the exposure affects customers of Twitter Ads and Analytics Manager. Information inputted by those customers, including email addresses, phone numbers, billing addresses ...

Concern has been raised about the future of the Open Technology Fund, a U.S.-government funded nonprofit corporation that develops internet freedom tools after a possible shift in its focus driven by the Trump administration. Founded in 2012 and funded as an independent grantee corporation of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the OTF aims to ...