Ram Iyer

Car sharing giant Zoomcar says hacker accessed personal data of 8.4 million users | TechCrunch The personal data includes customer names, phone numbers, and car registration numbers.

Indian car-sharing marketplace Zoomcar has revealed that a hacker accessed the personal data of at least 8.4 million customers, including their names, phone numbers, and car registration numbers.

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Phone unlocking firm Cellebrite to acquire mobile testing startup Corellium for $170M | TechCrunch Cellebrite said the deal will help with the "accelerated identification of mobile vulnerabilities and exploits."

NEW: Cellebrite, maker of phone unlocking tech, to buy mobile testing startup Corellium for $170 million.

Toma’s AI voice agents have taken off at car dealerships – and attracted funding from a16z | TechCrunch When Monik Pamecha co-founded AI voice startup Toma in early 2024, he hadn’t anticipated spending the summer months sweating in Bible Belt car

I was not expecting when I interivewed Toma founder Monik Pamecha to hear him tell a story about barnstorming through Bible Belt car dealerships last summer, like some weird modern day reinterpretation of the movie Tommy Boy.

Anyway this was a fun one:

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Data breach at newspaper giant Lee Enterprises affects 40,000 people | TechCrunch The ransomware attack paralyzed newspaper printing and disrupted operations at media outlets across the country for weeks.

Data breach at newspaper giant Lee Enterprises affects 40,000 people

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