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As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that workers at failed startups…

On January 7, at 11:10 p.m. in Dubai, Romy Backus received an email from education technology giant PowerSchool notifying her that the school she works at…

The Supreme Court upheld the ban on TikTok. Before the app goes dark on Sunday, you’re probably wondering how to back up the dozens, hundreds, or…

We regularly hear stories about companies selling your sensitive personal information — including your location data — to the highest bidder. The latest culprit appears to…

Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned health technology company that lost more than 100 million sensitive health data in a ransomware attack last year, said Tuesday that the…

After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it looks like VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels once again. But a…

U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyber attack on tech giant PowerSchool told TechCrunch that the hackers had access to “all” of the historical student…

For years, Vyas Sekar would call Muckai Girish, an old friend from undergrad, to talk about potential startup ideas and get Girish’s opinion. The two usually…

An intrusion and data breach at location data broker Gravy Analytics threatens the privacy of millions of people around the world whose smartphone apps inadvertently exposed…

It took far longer than originally planned weeks to arrive, but a critical privacy decision that has been hanging over Sam Altman’s World (aka Worldcoin) for…