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May 20, 2026

Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/trump-mobile-t1-phone-3000px.jpg?resize=1200,338 President Trump’s namesake cellphone provider and smartphone maker Trump Mobile is leaking customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses, according to reports. On Tuesday, […]
May 20, 2026

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_20190506_125609.jpg?resize=1200,812 GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code […]
May 19, 2026

From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Copy-of-IMG_8655.jpg?resize=1200,800 Shay Shwartz knows a lot about email phishing attacks. As a teenager, he made money as a hacker, but after getting caught at age 16, […]
May 19, 2026

Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1215460368-e1702491102983.jpg?resize=1200,676 Messaging platform giant Discord has switched on end-to-end encrypted voice and video messaging for every user. The end-to-end encryption feature means that Discord users can […]
May 19, 2026

US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cisa-2240293485.jpg?resize=1200,800 U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA may have escaped a sizable security breach, thanks to a good-faith security researcher who identified publicly exposed credentials that allowed access […]
May 19, 2026

The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/lightphone.jpg?resize=1200,875 If you were looking for a sign to try out a “dumb phone,” here it is: the trendy, minimalist Light Phone is joining forces with […]
May 19, 2026

Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply chain attack

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/code-on-a-screen.jpg?resize=1200,675 Hackers have compromised several popular open source projects relied on by software developers all over the world in an ongoing cyberattack. On Tuesday, cybersecurity firms […]
May 18, 2026

NYC Health and Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ambulances-2191226563.jpg?resize=1200,900 New York public health provider NYC Health and Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprints […]
May 18, 2026

Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cash-ransomware-ransom-payments-hackers-getty.jpg?resize=1200,675 Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the […]