Seesaw, a messaging app for parents and teachers with 10M users, says it suffered a credential stuffing attack, after users said they received an explicit image (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
2K, owned by Take Two Interactive and publisher of Bioshock, Xcom, and popular sports games, says its help desk was hacked and sent customers links to malware  —  American video game publisher 2K has confirmed that its help desk platform was hacked and used to target customers …

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Disinformation campaigns use text messages ahead of the 2022 US midterms; in Kansas, voters got texts falsely saying a “yes” vote would protect abortion access  —  The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook.

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Tumblr updates its community guidelines to allow nudity, mature subject matter, and sexual themes, but retains its limits for sexually explicit acts  —  Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform.

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post:
Victims of hacked Facebook accounts say Meta’s customer support is largely unhelpful; Meta has no new initiatives for helping people recover their accounts  —  Victims are losing time, money and peace of mind.  Facebook is doing next to nothing.  —  The first time 100 people tuned …

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FBI and CISA say an Iranian-backed threat group hacked a US Federal Civilian Executive Branch and deployed XMRig cryptomining malware via the Log4Shell flaw  —  The FBI and CISA revealed in a joint advisory published today that an unnamed Iranian-backed threat group hacked …

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
On-chain data: Wintermute, recently hacked for $160M, has $200M in outstanding DeFi debt, including a $92M Tether loan to TrueFi that matures on October 15  —  The firm’s CEO described the company as solvent following the $160 million hack.  —  Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute …