Amazon.com has a cloud service called The Amazon Cloud which hosts some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies including Apple's iCloud service and others.
The problems cropped up around 1pm, when some Apple iCloud and Amazon Echo users noticed that their devices wouldn't respond, or gave half answers to inquires.
The problem seems to be ongoing with no official word from Amazon on what the problem is or when it'll be fixed.
“Samsung just released a press statement declaring its Galaxy S7 edge as winning the best smartphone award at Mobile World Congress 2017,” reports Matt Burns for TechCrunch. “That didn’t happen.”
“GSMA is the trade organizing that hosts Mobile World Congress and every year they host an awards ceremony for achievements of the past year,” reports Burns. “So for this year’s awards, the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge was nominated alongside the iPhone 7 Plus, Pixel Xl, Huawei P9, and the Moto Z. The Galaxy S7 edge won The Best Smartphone 2016.”
“But that’s not what Samsung said in a press release,” reports Burns. “Samsung stated ‘The Galaxy S7 edge Named Best Smartphone at MWC 2017.’ Or, said a different way, never mind our terrible showing at the world’s largest mobile show; the S7 is the best phone here!”
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“A company that sells ‘smart’ teddy bears leaked 800,000 user account credentials — and then hackers locked it and held it for ransom,” Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports for Motherboard.
“A company that sells internet-connected teddy bears that allow kids and their far-away parents to exchange heartfelt messages left more than 800,000 customer credentials, as well as two million message recordings, totally exposed online for anyone to see and listen,” Franceschi-Bicchierai reports. “Since Christmas day of last year and at least until the first week of January, Spiral Toys left customer data of its CloudPets brand on a database that wasn’t behind a firewall or password-protected.”
“During the time the data was exposed, at least two security researchers, and likely malicious hackers, got their hands on it,” Franceschi-Bicchierai reports. “In fact, at the beginning of January, during the time several cybercriminals were actively scanning the internet for exposed MongoDB’s databases to delete their data and hold it for ransom, CloudPets’ data was overwritten twice, according to researchers.”
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