Real estate services giant Fidelity National Financial has confirmed hackers stole data on 1.3 million of its customers during a November cyberattack that knocked the company offline for a week.
FNF spokesperson Lisa Foxworthy-Parker did not respond to TechCrunch’s email requesting further details.
FNF said it “contained” the cyberattack on November 26 following a week-long outage that virtually froze all of the company and much of its subsidiaries’ operations.
One of FNF’s subsidiaries described the incident as a “catastrophe” in an automated message for customers.
FNF was one of several corporate victims of cyberattacks in recent weeks targeting the mortgage and loan industry, including LoanDepot and Mr. Cooper.
ABL Space Systems is looking to raise up to $100 million in new funding, and has just closed over $40 million, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
It’s the first indication that ABL has raised venture funding since October 2021, when the launch company closed $200 million at a $2.4 billion valuation.
Together, they’re meant to provide a mobile, all-in-one launch system.
However, the overall launch site layer represents a weak link.”Unsurprisingly, they argue that GS0 is the solution to this vulnerability, offering both a launch mount and a site system in a “proliferated” architecture.
“It was not in our plans to have RS1 grounded for most of 2023,” O’Hanley wrote after the launch.
Offshore wind turbines at two commercial-scale sites are now sending power to the U.S. grid.
The firms wanted to deliver offshore wind power via the site before the end of 2023; they missed that goal by just a few days.
The Vineyard Wind news comes about a month after another offshore site near Montauk Point, New York declared a similar breakthrough.
Dubbed South Fork Wind, the offshore wind project so far has two turbines installed, with one operating.
Yet, U.S. offshore wind has suffered some blows recently, in spite of support from the Biden administration, which made offshore turbines a key part of its strategy to reduce climate pollution.
The Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 are on sale at Apple brick and mortar locations starting today and will hit the company’s online store tomorrow.
Apple notes, “We are thrilled to return the full Apple Watch lineup to customers in time for the new year.
A day after an Apple Watch import ban went into effect in the U.S., an appeals court has instituted a pause.
However, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 remain unavailable on the company’s site nearly a week after initially being pulled.
Masimo has also accused Apple of poaching Masimo employees to build the blood oxygen sensor, which first arrived in 2020 with the Watch Series 6.
Google is launching a few updates to Chrome on desktop this week that aim to make your browsing experience a bit safer and give you more control over your browser’s memory usage.
The marquee feature for this update is proactive Safety Check.
Starting with version 120, which actually launched a few weeks ago, desktop Chrome’s Safety Check on desktop will now run in the background and send out proactive alerts when it detects if a password in Chrome has been compromised or when an extension you’ve installed is malware.
It’ll also remind you to update Chrome.
Google is also highlighting two other updates to Chrome on desktop today.
An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized this site as part of a coordinated law enforcement action taken against ALPHV Blackcat Ransomware,” a message on the gang’s dark web leak site now reads, seen by TechCrunch.
According to the splash, the takedown operation also involved law enforcement agencies from the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia.
Spokespeople for the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s requests for comment.
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang has been one of the most active and destructive in recent years.
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