USA Basketball’s Olympic dominance is unmatched on both the men’s and women’s sides of the coin, but Diana Taurasi has a chance to do what no basketball player has ever done on an Olympic court. Taurasi is on the verge of her sixth career gold medal, aiming to win one last championship with the Team […]
How the theft of 40M UK voter register records was entirely preventable
A cyberattack on the U.K. Electoral Commission that resulted in the data breach of voter register records on 40 million people was entirely preventable had the organization used basic security measures, according to the findings from a damning report by the U.K.’s data protection watchdog published this week. The report published by the U.K.’s Information […]
Inside Katie Ledecky's dominance at 800, 1500 meters: History of Olympic medals, records for USA's long-distance queen
There is no one who has the endurance that Katie Ledecky has in the swimming pool. There are plenty of ways to describe the American swim sensation. She’s a world record holder, an Olympic gold medalist, World Champion and all-time great Olympian. She’s also arguably the best in the world at long-distance swimming. When it comes […]
The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising
We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of […]
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of ‘nearly all’ customers in new data breach
U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will begin notifying millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. In a statement, AT&T said that the stolen data contains phone numbers of both cellular and landline customers, […]