Internet provider Brightspeed is investigating claims by the Crimson Collective that they stole data on over a million customers. The criminals have listed the dataset for sale for three bitcoin, roughly $276,370, and threaten to dump it publicly.
Residents of Greenleaf, Wisconsin, are being offered big money to sell their land for a potential data center project. The developer’s identity is a mystery, but it’s part of a major building boom in the state.
PayPal is launching a major new advertising platform built on its “transaction graph” of real purchases. The move directly challenges the “walled gardens” of traditional tech giants by offering verified sales data, not just modeled intent. Early results, like a 20% sales lift for Ulta Beauty, show t
Prologis is seeking to annex 429 acres in Shelbyville, Illinois, for a new data center campus. The project, which would total up to 13 buildings, is meeting resistance from residents despite city support. The move is part of Prologis’s aggressive push into the data center market.
Withings is launching the Body Scan 2, a high-end smart scale it calls a “longevity station.” Priced at $599.95, it claims to measure over 60 biomarkers in 90 seconds and syncs data to Apple Health. The device is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2026.
The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) has broken ground on the “Hexagon” data center in Riyadh. The facility will span a staggering 30 million square feet and have a 480MW power capacity. It’s designed to host over 290 government systems as part of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 digital transformation
The insurance giant Aflac has revealed the massive scale of a data breach it first reported in June 2025. The personal data of 22.65 million people, including Social Security numbers and health information, was compromised. The company is offering affected individuals two years of free credit monito
The University of Phoenix has disclosed a breach affecting nearly 3.5 million individuals. The attack, linked to the Clop ransomware group, exploited a zero-day flaw in Oracle’s software and went undetected for months.
Google is shutting down its Dark Web Report service in early 2025, saying it didn’t offer enough actionable advice. Meanwhile, Texas is suing major TV manufacturers for alleged illegal data collection, and a cloud hacking competition uncovered critical vulnerabilities with an 85% success rate.
Google has filed a lawsuit against data scraping company SerpApi. The suit alleges SerpApi bypassed Google’s SearchGuard protection by making hundreds of millions of automated queries appear to come from human users.
