Jihye Lee / CNBC:
Kakao’s co-CEO Namkoong Whon resigns and apologizes for the recent outage; Hong Eun-taek, who led the company alongside Namkoong, will remain as sole CEO — A top executive at Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, will step down.
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
A recent Kakao outage has raised monopoly concerns in South Korea; the company had previously claimed it had ~47.5M active users in the country of 51M+ people — SEOUL — In South Korea, Kakao is ubiquitous. Nearly everyone, from schoolchildren to the elderly, uses the Korean tech company’s apps …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Meta plans to test Discord-like “Community Chats” in Messenger and Facebook Groups, offering categories, audio and video channels, admin-only chats, and more — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
WhatsApp confirms a major outage worldwide, starting around 3AM ET, and says it is “working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible” — WhatsApp is down in a major outage affecting the communications app. The service started experiencing issues at around 3AM ET …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Rackspace confirms a ransomware attack caused an ongoing outage to its hosted Microsoft Exchange services, but its other products are fully operational — Texas-based cloud computing provider Rackspace has confirmed today that a ransomware attack is behind its ongoing Hosted Exchange outage.
Kyungji Cho / Bloomberg:
South Korea details more “abnormal” foreign exchange transactions, most related to crypto, bringing the total to $7.2B since June; 72% went to Hong Kong — South Korea confirmed more cases of “abnormal” foreign-exchange transactions, mostly related to cryptocurrencies, the nation’s financial watchdog said.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Brian Krebs apologizes to IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti after posting now-removed articles on a “breach” based on a “sole source” currently under federal indictment — Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti.
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