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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · 1d

Cops have seized the latest incarnation of Breach Forums, which had become the public-facing leak shop for Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest extortion campaign.

The group claims the takedown has "no impact" on its planned leak of ~1 billion Salesforce records www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/c...

Cops seize Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' BreachForums domain

: US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce

www.theregister.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · 7d

thank you Allan! 🥺

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Aug 18

From PAYE to P45: HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/h...

HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data

: Agency swears breaches are rare, just not rare enough to stop 186 being binned for sticky fingers

www.theregister.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Aug 14

Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/a...

Alarms and timers KO’d in UK outage

: Brits wake to a beeping nightmare as Amazon’s AI assistant forgets how to set – or stop – alarms

www.theregister.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Aug 14

Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/l...

Russia blamed for US court hack and Norwegian dam drama

: Moscow-linked miscreants accused of swiping sealed US court files and fiddling with a Norwegian dam’s floodgates

www.theregister.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Aug 14

re-sharing as i'm on The Reg cyber desk a bunch over the next few weeks - send me your tips!

Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Jul 23

news! i'm going to be doing some shifts on the cybersecurity desk at The Register. if you've got any tips/scoops/spicy stories, send them my way - Signal & email in bio. ty!

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Jul 24

can't believe The Reg are already letting me get away with headlines like this www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/e...

Dior tells customers their data was swiped in cyber snafu

Updated: French fashion house dishes out notices after hackers raided a client database – ShinyHunters suspected

www.theregister.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Jul 23

news! i'm going to be doing some shifts on the cybersecurity desk at The Register. if you've got any tips/scoops/spicy stories, send them my way - Signal & email in bio. ty!

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Jul 22

❤️

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Jun 30

yeah having a really productive day thanks

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Jun 23

proof I can still write:

techicons.com/spotlight/th...

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www.telegraph.co.uk/recommended/...

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Jun 23

hello! 👋

after being made redundant from TechCrunch, I took some much-needed time to hang out with my daughter, touch grass, and briefly forget how to write.

good news: I think I’ve remembered, so do get in touch if you're looking for a tech journalist/writer/editor/mix of the above

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Apr 28

thank you Scott!

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Apr 28

just noticed the typo. we're off to a good start!!

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Apr 28

absolutely!!

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Apr 28

some ✨personal news✨

i've been redundant and it's my last week at TechCrunch.

i’m going to be returning to the world of freelance, so if you need an experienced tech journalist / copywriter / editor / or a mix of the above, please get in touch [email protected]

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · Mar 21

In a statement, Apple told me that it took action against fewer than 250 iCloud users that were affected by the breach at SpyX. Apple said when data breaches at other companies pose a risk to its customers, its security teams investigate & take action.

More: techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/d...

Exclusive: Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users

Another consumer-grade spyware operation was hacked in June 2024, which exposed thousands of Apple Account credentials.

techcrunch.com

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · Mar 20

NEW: North Korea is reportedly launching a new cybersecurity research unit called Research Center 227, which will be housed within the intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), and will focus on AI-based hacking and stealing digital assets.

techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/n...

North Korea launches new unit with a focus on AI hacking, per report | TechCrunch

North Korea is reportedly launching a new cybersecurity unit called Research Center 227 within its intelligence agency Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB).

techcrunch.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hackers are ramping up attempts to exploit a trio of year-old ServiceNow vulnerabilities to break into unpatched company instances techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/h...

Hackers are ramping up attacks using year-old ServiceNow security bugs to target unpatched systems | TechCrunch

Threat intelligence startup GreyNoise says it has observed a ‘notable resurgence’ in attack activity

techcrunch.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Mar 19

The Pennsylvania State Education Association says hackers stole the sensitive personal and financial information of more than half a million of its members.

PSEA said it “took steps” to ensure the stolen data was deleted, suggesting it paid a ransom demand techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/u...

US teachers' union says hackers stole sensitive personal data on over 500,000 members | TechCrunch

PSEA says it "took steps to ensure" its stolen data was deleted, suggesting a ransom demand was paid

techcrunch.com

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · Mar 19

NEW, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: Citizen Lab have named several countries, including Canada, as potential customers of Paragon's Graphite spyware, weeks after WhatsApp notified 90 users — including a journalist and human rights defenders — that their devices were targeted by the Israeli-made spyware.

Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers | TechCrunch

The Citizen Lab said it believes several governments may be customers of spyware maker Paragon Solutions.

techcrunch.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Mar 18

CISA is scrambling to contact more than 130 former employees after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate workers it “unlawfully” fired techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/c...

CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs 'unlawful' | TechCrunch

Federal court rules U.S. cybersecurity agency must re-hire over 100 former employees

techcrunch.com

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Carly Page @carlypage.bsky.social · Mar 17

Security researchers say hackers linked to the notorious LockBit gang are exploiting a pair of Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware on company networks techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/h...

Hackers are exploiting Fortinet firewall bugs to plant ransomware | TechCrunch

Security researchers say that a threat actor it calls Mora_001 has ‘close ties’ to the Russia-linked hacking group

techcrunch.com

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · Mar 17

New, by me: Marko Elez, the DOGE staffer who resigned after his racist posts resurfaced (and was rehired soon after), violated Treasury rules when he sent an unencrypted email containing personally identifiable information to two Trump administration officials.

techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/d...

DOGE staffer violated Treasury rules by emailing unencrypted personal data | TechCrunch

Marko Elez emailed a spreadsheet containing personal information to two Trump administration officials.

techcrunch.com

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · Mar 12

NEW: @journalistjagmeet.com confirmed that Indian police have arrested co-founder of the Russian crypto exchange Garantex Aleksej Besciokov.

Police said arrest was under extradition law, suggesting it was on behalf of U.S. authorities who indicted Besciokov with money laundering crimes.

Garantex administrator arrested in India under extradition law | TechCrunch

Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India's Kerala on Tuesday under the country's extradition law.

techcrunch.com

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