Hacker steals govt database with info of entire Argentine population

By Deeba Ahmed
Reportedly, the database also contains personal information of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, football superstars Sergio Aguero and Lionel Messi.
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Chinese VPN app Quickfox caught exposing 1 million users’ data

By Waqas
The Quickfox VPN is mainly used by Chinese citizens living abroad who need to access Chinese websites as most of these sites are geo-restricted.
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Storybooks for children app FarFaria exposed data of 3M users

By Waqas
According to FarFaria, its apps are “created for children ages 2-9” meaning that the incident exposed children to cybercriminals.
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The Org nabs $20M led by Tiger Global to expand its platform based on public organizational charts

LinkedIn normalized the idea of making people’s resume’s visible to anyone who wanted to look at them, and today a startup that’s hoping to do the same for companies and how they are organized and run is announcing some funding. The Org, which wants to build a global, publicly-viewable database of company organizational charts — […] Continue reading The Org nabs $20M led by Tiger Global to expand its platform based on public organizational charts

Real-time database platform SingleStore raises $80M more, now at a $940M valuation

Organizations are swimming in data these days, and so solutions to help manage and use that data in more efficient ways will continue to see a lot of attention and business. In the latest development, SingleStore — which provides a platform to enterprises to help them integrate, monitor and query their data as a single […] Continue reading Real-time database platform SingleStore raises $80M more, now at a $940M valuation

Databricks raises $1.6B at $38B valuation as it blasts past $600M ARR

The company views its market as a new technology category. Databricks calls the technology a data “lakehouse,” a mashup of data lake and data warehouse. Continue reading Databricks raises $1.6B at $38B valuation as it blasts past $600M ARR

AT&T breach? ShinyHunters selling AT&T database with 70 million SSN

By Waqas
In a post published on an infamous hacker forum and marketplace Raid Forums, ShinyHunters is offering the database for starting price of $200k.
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