Fast Company brings its site back online after eight days offline, saying a cyberattack hit its CMS and “no customer or advertiser information was disclosed” (Brendan Vaughan/Fast Company)

Adele Peters / Fast Company:
GiveDirectly and Google.org are using AI mapping and satellite imagery to find low-income hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico and Florida and send cash payments  —  Storms worsen inequality.  These $700 cash payments can help lessen the blow.  —  After a disaster like Hurricane Ian …

Jared Newman / Fast Company:
1Password unveils “passkey” support for secure user logins to apps, and says it will work across platforms, including iOS and Android, coming in early 2023  —  When Apple and Google announced their passwordless login systems earlier this year, they glossed over one major problem …

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company’s decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and others  —  It’s nice to be synonymous with a product category.  But Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that expanding on its video-calling ubiquity is both an opportunity and a challenge.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, is hit with a large DDoS attack causing its apps and website to go offline; “IT Army of Ukraine” claims credit for the attack  —  Russia’s second-largest financial institution VTB Bank says it is facing the worse cyberattack in its history …

Alice Uribe / Wall Street Journal:
Australian telecom Optus suffers a cyberattack, potentially giving the hacker access to data on up to 9.8M customers, per the CEO; the police are investigating  —  Australian telecoms company says mass breach could have exposed birth dates, phone numbers and other personal data

Dan Bilefsky / New York Times:
The Metropolitan Opera restarts processing ticket orders, nine days after a suspected ransomware attack took its website offline and paralyzed its box office  —  Hackers had left the Met, the largest performing arts organization in the United States, unable to sell tickets as it tries to recover from the pandemic.