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A security flaw in Grindr let anyone easily hijack user accounts

TechCrunch LA

Grindr, one of the world’s largest dating and social networking apps for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, has fixed a security vulnerability that allowed anyone to hijack and take control of any user’s account using only their email address. Bouimadaghene found the vulnerability in how the app handles account password resets.

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Social Bluebook was hacked, exposing 217,000 influencers’ accounts

TechCrunch LA

Social Bluebook, a Los Angeles-based company, allows advertisers to pay social media “influencers” for posts that promote their products and services. “We have just now become aware of this data breach that occurred in October 2019,” he told TechCrunch in an email Thursday.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Oh, and did I mention: Roger – NYC, Rob/Rory – NorCal, Nick/Chris – London & me – Los Angeles. Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. How much is too much?

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

TechCrunch LA

Mercato operates in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where the company is headquartered. The data set contained more than 70,000 orders dating between September 2015 and November 2019, and included customer names and email addresses, home addresses and order details. How to respond to a data breach. Learn more. .

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Social Media Breakfast Los Angeles | More Then Just Breakfast

Tech Zulu Event

The event was created a little over two years ago after Williams realized that Los Angeles was lacking a social media breakfast club, despite the fact this type of event is found in most major cities. You can get on the email list by signing up via their Facebook page to receive alerts of upcoming events.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

While Los Angeles city officials way back in 2003 asked its manufacturers and suppliers to stop using the terminology, they did not require it. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com . What’s wild is that these terms ever existed in the first place and are just now being addressed.

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