Notices by Zack Whittaker (zackwhittaker@mastodon.social)

New: Elon Musk's DOGE team was granted "full access" to sensitive Treasury payment systems that control trillions of dollars in payments to Americans, including Social Security checks and tax refunds.

Sen. Ron Wyden said Musk’s access poses a “national security risk.”

The access could also be considered a massive data breach of Americans' personal information in the hands of unelected private individuals.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/senator-warns-of-national-security-risks-after-elon-musks-doge-granted-full-access-to-sensitive-treasury-systems/

"Notice me."

New, by me: LetMeSpy, a spyware maker based in Poland, said it will shut down and cease operations after a hacker broke in and wiped out its servers.

Radeal CEO Rafal Lidwin, who develops the spyware, did not respond to a request for comment.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/05/letmespy-spyware-shuts-down-wiped-server/

New by me, @carlypage and @lorenzofb:

The list of known victims is growing after the Clop ransomware gang claimed it mass-hacked 130 organizations using a bug in a popular data transfer tool called GoAnywhere.

But the impact is murky at best. It's not clear if even Clop knows what data it stole.

TechCrunch has learned of dozens of organizations that used the affected GoAnywhere tool at the time of the hack, suggesting more victims may come forward.

Read: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/22/fortra-goanywhere-ransomware-attack/

New, by me: Google's Project Zero is sounding the alarm over four zero-day flaws in Samsung chips, affecting dozens of Android models.

Google says the flaws can be "silently and remotely" exploited over the cell network. Samsung had 90 days to patch the bugs, but hasn’t yet. 🚨

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/google-warning-samsung-chips-flaws-android/

New, by me: The website of ODIN Intelligence, which provides apps and tools to police departments, was defaced on Sunday, after intruders claimed to have hacked the company.

The breach comes days after Wired found that an app developed by ODIN called SweepWizard, which allows police to manage and coordinate multi-agency raids, was spilling sensitive data to the open web.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/15/odin-intelligence-website-defaced-sweepwizard/