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TechCrunch: Venture capital firm Insight Partners says it has completed notifying a number of individuals, including the firm’s limited partners, whose personal information was stolen by hackers in a January data breach.
MSN/Reuters: Netskope is seeking a valuation of up to $6.5 billion in its initial public offering in the United States, the cloud-based cybersecurity firm said, signaling investors' appetite for new listings.
The Target: TransUnion, one of America’s big three credit bureaus.
The Take: Names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth were among the stolen information, according to the Texas filing.
The Vector: TransUnion said "the incident involved unauthorized access to limited personal information for a very small percentage of U.S. consumers," adding, "we are working with law enforcement and have engaged third party cyber security experts for an independent forensics review."
This breach is a stark reminder of how strong authentication controls are in an overall robust cybersecurity posture, and that good password hygiene plays a pivotal role in protection.
Business Wire: Q6 Cyber (“Q6” or the “Company”), a leading threat intelligence platform focused on preventing fraud and financial crime, announced that it has received a strategic growth investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners (“Charlesbank”), a middle-market private investment firm.
Bank Info Security: Anthropic obtained $13 billion in fresh capital, one of the largest single rounds ever for an artificial intelligence company, bringing its post-money valuation to $183 billion.
MSN/Reuters: Zscaler forecast annual revenue above Wall Street estimates, betting on robust demand for its cybersecurity services as businesses upscale infrastructure to accommodate AI, sending its shares up 3% in extended trading.
Forbes: July 2025 continued to demonstrate Silicon Valley’s resilience and sharpened investment focus. Public markets posted mixed results: The Nasdaq gained 3.40% and the S&P 500 rose 2.19%, while the Dow Jones slipped 0.68%.
The Target: Farmers Insurance is a U.S.-based insurer that provides auto, home, life, and business insurance products. It operates through a network of agents and subsidiaries, serving more than 10 million households nationwide.
The Take: The company says that its investigation determined that customers' names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, and/or last four digits of Social Security numbers were stolen during the breach.
The Vector: On May 30, 2025, one of Farmers' third-party vendors alerted Farmers to suspicious activity involving an unauthorized actor accessing one of the vendor's databases containing Farmers customer information.
This breach highlights the extreme importance of timely software updates for known software vulnerabilities, not only in systems directly under a firm’s control, but in third-party systems the firm relies upon as well. The longer a firm, or its vendors, hold out on deploying the most up-to-date software for their systems, the greater the chance an attacker will exploit the issue.
Yahoo News/Reuters: Anthropic said it had detected and blocked hackers attempting to misuse its Claude AI system to write phishing emails, create malicious code and circumvent safety filters.
Yahoo Finance/Reuters: Cybersecurity company Okta raised annual revenue and profit forecasts, betting on growing demand for its identity verification tools as enterprises strengthen defenses against artificial intelligence-powered attacks.
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