Victims of hacked Facebook accounts say Meta’s customer support is largely unhelpful; Meta has no new initiatives for helping people recover their accounts (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

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 …

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Cairo-based Money Fellows, which digitizes money circles or rotating savings and credit associations, raised a $31M Series B, bringing its total funding to $37M  —  Egyptian fintech Money Fellows has raised $31 million in what it describes as the first close of its Series B investment.

Billy House / Bloomberg:
In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, 35 House Republicans request communications between Facebook and the FBI in a probe relating to the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story  —  House Republicans are demanding that Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg hand over FBI warnings …

Todd Spangler / Variety:
A Twitter thread from Matt Taibbi exposes Twitter documents on the internal debate over the handling of content related to NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story  —  The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).

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 …

The Economic Times:
A survey of ~4,000 Indian gig workers on Swiggy, Zomato, Uber, Amazon, and others: 42% say their income is flat, 47% have no insurance, and 51% can’t save money  —  Gig workers in India are young, financially stressed, and largely uninsured, according to a new report.