This edition tracks the week’s highest-impact cybersecurity and AI-security developments, selected for relevance to security, technology, and communications leaders.
This issue details the investigation into a 72-million customer record leak at Under Armour, a significant API security failure at the mentoring non-profit UStrive, and the guilty plea of a hacker who targeted U.S. federal agencies including the Supreme Court.
Sources
- [Under Armour Investigates Data Breach Claims Affecting 72 Million Customers](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/under-armour-says-its-aware-of-data-breach-claims-after-72m-customer-records-were-posted-online)
- [UStrive Security Lapse Exposed Personal Data of 238,000 Users, Including Children](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/ustrive-security-lapse-exposed-personal-data-of-its-users-including-children)
- [Supreme Court Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stealing and Posting Government Data on Instagram](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/supreme-court-hacker-posted-stolen-government-data-on-instagram)