Blend Labs Inc., a San Francisco-based financial technology lending platform provider, today said it has raised $130 million in a new late-stage round of funding to hire more people, invest in new technologies and broaden its suite of consumer lending products. The Series E round was led by Temasek and General Atlantic. Previous investors 8VC, Founders Fund, ...

Bitcoin surged through $11,000 over the weekend as some are starting to suggest that the cryptocurrency could be repeating its record run of 2017. The price of bitcoin peaked at $11,191.31 at 4:30 p.m. EDT Sunday before dropping again to $10,691.44 as of 10:20 p.m., having spent the last 48 hours trading in a price band ...

Personal details relating to about 2.9 million members of Canada’s Desjardins Group, North America’s biggest federal credit union, have been exposed after they were stolen by an employee. The data theft included names, dates of birth, social insurance numbers, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and details about banking habits. Data relating to 173,000 business members of ...

Iran and the U.S. may not yet be at war, but a virtual war has begun online. According to multiple reports over the weekend, the U.S. Cyber Command launched digital strikes against targets in the country on Thursday. The Associated Press, referencing unnamed U.S. officials, say that the attacks targeted Iranian computer systems that control Iran’s ...

The price of bitcoin surged toward $10,000 Thursday as the cryptocurrency hit its highest price in 15 months. Bitcoin was trading at $9,726.60 at 11:05 p.m. EDT, its highest level since March 7, 2018, and near levels it was trading at in January of the same year as the bull run of 2017 turned into a ...

Hundreds of thousands of medical records, including those belonging to U.S. military personnel injured in combat, have been found exposed in two separate data breaches, one linked to a medical processing firm and the other a social media company. Both data breaches were discovered by security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor and ...

A Florida city has voted to pay nearly $600,000 in bitcoin to hackers who have held their computer network for ransom. Riviera Beach, 50 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, voted unanimously to pay the ransom on Monday after failing to recover data on their network since the ransomware attack began on May 29. The form ...

Apple Inc. has issued a voluntary recall and replacement program for 15-inch MacBook Pro computers sold between September 2015 and February 2017 because a battery issue raises the risk of their catching fire. The recall specifically covers the MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, mid-2015) model. Apple said that in a limited number of units, the battery may ...

Anti-phishing cybersecurity startup Valimail Inc. today said it has raised $45 million in new funding to accelerate the expansion of its product offering, partnerships and international operations. The Series C round was led by Insight Partners and included Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Flybridge Capital Partners. Founded in 2015, Valimail offers a purpose-built platform ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today launched Ethereum Gateway, a new service that allows users to interact with the Ethereum network without the need to install additional software. Offered as part of Cloudflare’s Distributed Web Gateway tool set, the gateway enables any device with web access to interact with the Ethereum network without downloading ...