It looks like AT&T is down.
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach
U.S. cell carrier Patriot Mobile experienced a data breach that included subscribers’ personal information, including full names, email addresses, home zip codes, and account PINs, TechCrunch has learned. […]
This Drag-Based Fighting Game Failed Because It Was ‘Too Gay’
On May 15, the official X (formerly Twitter) account for Drag Her!, an indie fighting game set to feature famous drag performers, shared a sad update: After three years of development, and around $75,000 in funding via Kickstarter, the game was shutting down and the dev team was disbanding. The reason? “A simple lack…
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile declare legal war on FCC
The FCC fined AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile over the mishandling of customers’ location-based data. The companies plan of fighting it.
EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M
WSO2, a company that provides API management and identity and access management (IAM) services for enterprises, has been acquired by Swedish investment giant EQT. Terms of the deal […]
T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon slapped with $200M fine — here’s what they illegally did with your data
The FCC has fined the four major U.S. wireless carriers for failing to protect and selling customers’ sensitive location-based data.
US fines telcos $200M for sharing customer location data without consent
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it is fining the four U.S. major wireless carriers around $200 million in total for “illegally” sharing and selling […]
Cape dials up $61M from A16Z + more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data
AT&T’s recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts impacted — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the data is […]
Tesla drops prices, Meta confirms Llama 3 release, and Apple allows emulators in the App Store
Heya, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. Google’s annual enterprise-focused dev conference, Google Cloud Next, dominated […]
AT&T notifies regulators after customer data breach
AT&T has begun notifying U.S. state authorities and regulators of a security incident after confirming that millions of customer records posted online last month were authentic. In a […]