Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-customer-number…
Verizon offers $10.99 credits to Fios subscribers in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Providence, RI, to cover the loss of Fox and NBC affiliates amid a dispute with Cox (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/verizon-refund-customers-boston-pittsburgh<…
Your product is a hoax? Doesn’t matter. Your customer support is a completely inoperable bullshit bot? Doesn’t matter. You’re a con artist? Positive advantage!
Customers? What are customers?! Just a line on a spreadsheet that helps sell the con!
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Cyber troubles never end for KT in Korea.
An internet installation technician working as a subcontractor for KT has been accused of leaking customer personal information to another mobile phone retailer.
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/1…
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Well, idk, maybe MAKE SOME FUCKING PHONES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE NEW FEATURES AND AREN'T JUST FLATTER
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/bank-data-hack.html
Check out today's Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Cyberattack on a critical third-party vendor could expose top banks' customer data,
--An insider shared internal CrowdStrike screenshots on Telegram,
--Hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200 companies,
--DOGE has purportedly disbanded,
--Harvard is the latest Ivy to get hacked,
--AI models can sabotage coding projects, …
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/bank-data-hack.html
Oh wow.
SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase, was hacked.
Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports (Emilio Parodi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tax-cus