TechCrunch Summary (2023-05-12 08AM)

Source: Brightly says SchoolDude data breach spilled 3 million user accounts

Summary
Hackers stole around three million SchoolDude user accounts in an April data breach. SchoolDude is a cloud-based work order management system, primarily used by schools and universities to submit and track maintenance orders. Stolen data includes names, email addresses, account passwords, phone numbers and district names. The passwords stolen are not encrypted.

Facts

👨‍💻 Hackers stole close to three million SchoolDude user accounts.

🏫 The cloud-based work order management system is primarily used by schools and universities to submit and track maintenance orders.

🔑 Names, email addresses, account passwords, phone numbers, and district names were stolen.

🔓 The stolen passwords were not encrypted, which makes credential stuffing easier.

💻 Brightly, which owns SchoolDude, reset customer passwords and warned users to change passwords on other online accounts that used the same password.

🚫 The company declined to comment on how the breach occurred or who was responsible for it.

Source: AWS announces new version of Aurora database that strips out I/O costs

Summary
Amazon introduced Aurora I/O-optimized, a version of Aurora database that doesn’t incur Input/Output charges. The new tech is designed for I/O-intensive applications, resulting in delivering accurate operational expenses to clients and helping migrate more workloads to the AWS, particularly during times of seasonal eCommerce or AI-based workloads.

Facts

💰 All I/O charges have been removed with Aurora I/O-optimized.

🤝 The goal is to migrate more workloads to AWS

🏭 Aurora I/O-optimized performs best in I/O-intensive workloads

🧮 Clients can better predict operational fees for different types of workloads

📈 Clients have seen 40% cost savings when using the new Aurora pricing over previous models.

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