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Snowflake is a publicly traded cloud data platform offering a managed data warehouse, analytics, and data-sharing service with separated storage and compute.
Health-ISAC warned members in September 2026 that ShinyHunters-linked crews extort healthcare without encrypting files, in one case taking over 1TB. A dev.to write-up of the warning points to new factor enrollments and bulk exports as the signals to watch.
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Attackers who threatened millions of Asos customers got into its Snowflake-hosted data by posing as an employee's trusted contact, City AM reports. Its report names ShinyHunters for H&M alone among Asos, H&M and TFG, so a shared method across the three is unconfirmed.
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Workday made its MCP server, SQL access to live data and a shared agent runtime generally available on Tuesday. Agents built in Claude Code or Cursor run under the signed-in user's permissions, the company says.
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TFG London identified a cybersecurity incident on Sunday 11 October that hit IT systems at Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles. TFG says it has no reason to believe payment information is at risk, and the Independent counts it as the second UK retailer hack in a week.
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Air France-KLM confirmed to City AM that unauthorised access reached internal folders despite mandatory multi-factor authentication. The airline did not name an attacker, so the tie to Xuanye Group, the Asos claimant, rests on the group's own posts.
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Anthropic's Claude Dashboards, now in beta on paid plans, shows the SQL query behind any number a user clicks. The New Stack reported that Anthropic has not yet said whose credentials run each refresh, a detail data teams need before connecting a production warehouse.
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Asos says hackers took detailed profiles of potentially millions of customers, after first telling investors only basic contact details may have been accessed. The revision followed the attackers' approach to the BBC, so the people holding the records set the timing of the fuller disclosure.
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Asos said hackers obtained an employee's login by posing as a trusted contact, then reached customer names and contact details on third-party platforms. The shares fell on the hackers' app alert two days before Asos explained it. For a board, that puts staff checks and disclosure speed inside the same risk.
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Extortionists sent ASOS app users an apparently genuine ASOS push alert on October 6 claiming they had fully compromised the retailer's Snowflake instance. The alert is the only access anyone outside ASOS has seen; the entry route and any data taken are unknown.
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ASOS shares fell 10% after attackers used one employee's stolen login to push an extortion message through its app, a dev.to account says. That single credential was enough to reach third-party messaging tools, so those consoles need production-grade access controls.
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Amazon Web Services added Iceberg materialized views to Redshift, so a result Redshift computes once can be read by Spark and Athena, a dev.to write-up says. Teams that copy shared metrics between engines with ETL jobs can retire those jobs only if the views stay fresh enough for their readers.
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Apparent hackers sent an extortion note through ASOS's app to UK customers, claiming to have "fully compromised" its Snowflake instance. ASOS has not confirmed a breach, so the only compromise anyone has seen is that outsiders could message its app users.
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Group-IB found the Telegram channel in ASOS's October 6 rogue push alert was opened that day by an account once used for gaming-item trading. Until data surfaces, the Snowflake claim is unproven and the abused messaging platform is the lead to work.
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Google paid two to three times the roughly 6 million euro going rate for backup fiber across Turkey, according to a person familiar with the deal. Most Europe-Asia cloud traffic still crosses the contested Red Sea strait, so the premium buys a route for the day a cable breaks.
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Hackers used the Asos app on Tuesday to send UK users an extortion demand claiming they had compromised the retailer's Snowflake instance. Because the demand went to shoppers, the attackers decided when Asos had to speak to customers, before it could say what data, if any, was taken.
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HackerRank's Chakra AI interviewer, now open to all customers after more than 500,000 test interviews, scores how developers work alongside an AI assistant. Hiring teams that adopt it take on the job of checking what that score measures and which candidates it flags.
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Cloudflare made its Data Platform generally available as Basin, three serverless services that ingest, catalog and query Apache Iceberg tables on R2. Outside Iceberg engines read the same tables, so Workers teams can price Basin SQL against a warehouse on identical data.
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Microsoft and Google are joining Apache Ossie, an open format for moving semantic models between platforms that more than 60 companies already back. Its shared hub cuts converter work, though analysts say lock-in eases only as far as the format can carry each vendor's logic.
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Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he fired advisor Chris Degnan, who two hours later announced he is chief revenue officer at $48 billion rival Cognition. Founders whose investors also back their rivals carry the same exposure on their own boards.
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Microsoft made Fabric IQ the default business context for Microsoft 365 Copilot at FabCon Barcelona and opened it to outside agents over MCP. The metric definitions teams keep in Power BI semantic models now shape what those agents answer.
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