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Jaguar Land Rover said on Wednesday that an unspecified amount of data was stolen during a cyberattack that stopped the vehicle assembly line. In a statement Wednesday, the UK-based Land Rover and Range Rover vehicles manufacturers said they know that “some data” was obtained in the incident. Companies operating in the UK are obligated to notify the Information Committee's office within three days of discovering a data breach. It is not immediately clear whether the data is related to the company, its employees, or customers. Jaguar Land Rover revealed the cyber attack on September 2, saying the incident forced the…

One Friday evening, Alix van der Worm couldn't stop thinking, “I should do something with someone.” But she was thinking about finding herself on her own again on a Friday night and heading to the gym. That was when she recently realized it was extremely difficult to try and make plans with people. “Think about who's around, texting, waiting, research options. It was ridiculous that being home and watching a movie was one tap, but seeing friends was ten steps,” Van der Volm said. At 25 years old, van derworm is a very Generation Z, and he self-reports that overly…

As AI is increasingly helping hackers launch large-scale email attacks, former Google security leaders have joined forces to build an autonomous AI agent aimed at exploiting phishing, malware, and business email emails to compromise threats before they reach the user's inbox. This is the mission behind Aegisai. This is a new email security startup just born out of stealth with Seed Funding, co-led by Accel and Foundation Capital. More than 90% of successful cyberattacks begin with phishing emails, according to the US federal cybersecurity agency CISA. A recent Cloud Strike Study (PDF) also found that there was a 54% click-through…

Last year TechCrunch disrupts side events and attracts hundreds of founders, investors and operators after opening hours. Each event unlocked new opportunities for hosts: investor trading flow, talent connectivity, and brand exposure with the startup community. The same can be done this year too. We will host the “Disrupt Week” (October 25th-31st) side event, and will be using the Bay Area Tech community. Why host side events? Visibility: A brand that sabotages event sites, event apps and TechCrunch.com's 2025 side event list. Connect: Meet startup leaders and investors in your own environment. Flexibility: From panels to parties, it's your format,…

Early stage founders, beware. TechCrunch's 2025 Builders Stage features a powerhouse panel of veteran investors who share where companies have bets since 2026. Please join the stage Nina Atchajian, partner at Index Ventures – focuses on overlooked industrial automation and investment across AI, robotics and vertical Saas. Jerry Chen, general partner at GreyLock – product-driven founder of AI, data, cloud infrastructure and open source. Viviana Faga, general partner of Felicis – brings 20 years of expertise in market adoption, category creation and scaling brand strategy. Together, the veteran VCS group will uncover sectors and innovations that are attracting attention from…

Streaming Giant Plex is urging customers to change their passwords after revealing a data breach in one of their user databases. In a post Monday, the company said it is aware of security incidents related to theft of PLEX customer account information, including username, email address, scramble password and unspecified authentication data. It is unclear whether Plex can crack the password while it is scrambled in a human-free way, or if it can access the customer account using stolen authentication data. The company has said that customers need to access Plex's password reset form and change their password. Plex asks…

Cybersecurity is a large sector, but startups in the category are more likely to be acquired than they are publicly available. Even Wiz, who had held the title of the fastest growing startup for a while, gave up his IPO ambitions when he agreed to sell to Google earlier this year. Over the past few years, there have been few significant cybersecurity debuts like the 2021 Sentinel Lawn and last year's Rubrik. Next week, the sector will add another public company called Netskope, the cloud cybersecurity platform. The 13-year-old startup shares the earliest and largest investors with Rubrik: Lightspeed Venture…

AI needs a better brain – and Edo Freedom is building it. In 2025, TechCrunch took place on October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty explains why the next wave of AI-Native apps isn't driven by a smarter search, while bigger models aren't driven by. With over 10,000 startups and VC leaders expected to be confused, this AI stage fireside chat and presentation is a must-have session. The future of AI is nothing more than data – it's a better search Once AI is embedded in every workflow, the real differentiator is not…

Venture Capital Firm Insight Partners says it has completed notifications to many individuals, including exclusive partners at companies whose personal information was stolen by hackers in the January data breaches. In a statement later last week, the company said it completed its review in August following the data breaches. According to previous notifications, the stolen data contained information about the funds, management companies and portfolio companies of specific insight partners. Hackers also received tax information with banks and the company provides capital to private information, namely insights venture funds, about the typical private and unknown investors that provide capital on…

Privacy-focused messaging app signal announced on Monday that it will introduce the ability for users to back up text conversations for free along with the last 45 days of media. It also debuts its first paid feature by offering a complete media backup with up to 100GB of storage. Historically, messaging apps have not allowed users to store backups of any kind of your conversation on the platform. This can be especially troublesome if you lose or break your phone. You can transfer conversations from one cell phone to another, but there was no cloud backup. The new feature will…