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The digital age's promise of the internet being forever is proving to be deceptive as vast portions of online content are disappearing due to lack of profitability. Websites are shutting down, archives are vanishing, and digital culture is being lost. Even popular platforms like Wikipedia are not immune to this phenomenon. The transition from owning cultural products to accessing them as a service is exacerbating this issue, with companies like Paramount Global erasing decades of pop culture and history by shutting down websites. Efforts to preserve digital culture exist, such as the Internet Archive, but they are not enough to combat the digital decay caused by the constant need for profitability in the online world.
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The Internet is forever. At least, that was the promise — and the threat — of the digital age, echoed across browsers, clouds, and platforms. A silent warning accompanied every upload: be careful what you post — this will last forever.
But with each passing day, it becomes increasingly clear how deceptive that appearance is. Vast portions of the internet have already vanished because their caretakers abandoned them or found them unprofitable. Archives are disappearing, online libraries are closing, and entire segments of digital culture are being lost forever.
This isn’t just happening to obscure corners of the internet. According to a Pew Research Center study, 38% of all websites that existed in 2013 were no longer available by October 2023. Even the mighty Wikipedia is not immune to the phenomenon; 54% of all English-language articles link to at least one source that has since disappeared. Researchers call this phenomenon “digital decay.”
The idea that the internet itself could decay seems counterintuitive. For so long, it appeared to be ethereal and immaterial — eternal, even. In 1996, digital activist John Perry Barlow envisioned the internet as a realm where “everything created by the human mind could be reproduced and distributed infinitely and free of charge,” as he wrote in his Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. But this lofty vision overlooked the mundane realities of the digital world.
The internet isn’t made of light and air or fairy dust. It’s built on rare earth minerals, satellites, undersea cables, server farms, and power plants. Maintaining and distributing digital content isn’t effortless or free, and in the logic of the marketplace, anything that costs money must justify its existence. What fails to turn a profit is discarded.
In June 2024, Paramount Global quietly shut down the websites for MTV News and Country Music Television (CMT) and restructured Comedy Central. In doing so, it wiped out more than 20 years of pop culture and music journalism and erased early seasons of shows like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, whose biting satire once held the U.S. invasion of Iraq to account. These weren’t just shows — they were pieces of contemporary history.
Cultural products are no longer found in shop windows and later in living rooms and shelves or at least in libraries, but often enough only on the servers of companies. Users buy access through subscriptions or by watching advertisements. If the quarterly figures are not satisfactory, the company changes the content or closes the servers. In the era of physical media, cultural artifacts only needed to be profitable once: at their time of release. But in the digital age, they must remain profitable indefinitely.
This transition from culture as property to culture as service has been underway for a while.
“You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy, ” proclaimed a 2016 World Economic Forum video about our future. The first part of the quote has largely come true, the second is at least debatable. The loss of cultural control that comes with this model is becoming more serious every day.
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In 2009, Yahoo ended its web hosting service Geo-Cities, deleting around 38 million websites created there — a treasure trove of early internet aesthetics and culture. Elon Musk took over Twitter and made archive access almost impossible for researchers. Facebook and other companies do the same.
Tumblr took similarly aggressive action against “pornographic content” from 2018 onwards. The imprecise algorithms used for this deleted so much non-sexual and artistic content from LGBTQ+ people that Tumblr had to answer for it in the New York Human Rights Court.
Even basic structures are not safe: in June 2024, Google announced that it would discontinue a popular link shortening service. From 2025, all links shortened with it will lead nowhere — at the push of a button, countless digital paths become dead ends.
Storing digital culture is not enough. In recent decades, the technological foundations of the Internet have developed so rapidly that old data formats sometimes become obsolete after just a few years.
A prime example is the British Domesday Project. To mark the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book, a comprehensive land register of England from 1087, the BBC had a kind of new, multimedia Domesday Book 2 created. The almost 1,000-year-old book is still easy to read today with the right language skills — the original Domesday Book 2 disks were already outdated and unusable just 20 years later. The files had to be updated several times at great expense.
This ever-increasing obsolescence of digital culture products affects both hardware and software. This is particularly evident in video games. In 2023, Phil Salvador, Library Director of the Video Game History Foundation, examined the commercial availability of video games whose consoles are no longer produced. The result: 90% of video games released between 1960 to 2009 were no longer playable without the necessary hardware, and most were no longer sold or manufactured. Digital culture must be constantly maintained in order to be preserved.
Of course, efforts to preserve digital culture do exist. The Internet Archive is a non-profit online archive that was founded in 1996 by Internet activist Brewster Kahle to ensure the long-term archiving of digital and digitized culture. Some of the examples in this text are taken from the recently published report Vanishing Culture, which is curated by the Internet Archive.
The Internet Archive has often managed to save parts of this cultural loss in its archive. Among the 916 billion websites archived there are also 62% of those that are said to have already disappeared according to the Pew study mentioned at the beginning, as well as 470,000 pieces of content from MTV News and 70,000 from CMT. Many otherwise lost video games are also preserved there, as well as films, books and music.
But the Internet Archive is by no means enough to stand alone against the digital decay it has named and described. A few months ago it was attacked by hackers and was unable to archive anything for several weeks. It was sued by the Hachette publishing group for copyright infringement and lost. Record companies are currently suing the archive for $621 million for similar reasons — which could mean its end. Nobody knows what will happen to the millions upon millions of gigabytes of archive material.
So we need a corollary to the old adage: the Internet is forever as long as it’s profitable — and not much is profitable forever.
The digital world could be a perfect archive, but its custodians today are not librarians who preserve culture for its own sake, but managers who weigh up preservation against profit.
Not all cultural products need to be preserved, that’s true. But it’s equally true that the present is bad at predicting what will be interesting in the future. Too many famous composers were unsuccessful in their lifetimes, too many female authors had to be rediscovered decades after their deaths, for us to have that much confidence in our powers of prediction.
At no point in the past was there a claim to preserve and archive all cultural products, that is also true. But back in the age of physical media, different standards applied: making copies was laborious, as was storage and transport, and individual archives could be destroyed by war, fire or natural disasters. If you ask why not everything we created in the past was preserved, those were very good excuses. But what are ours?
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Updated on: January 1, 2025 / 6:06 PM EST / CBS News
A man intentionally drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. 
The attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. 
The man driving the vehicle has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas, the FBI said. 
FBI special agent Alethea Duncan said in a news conference on Wednesday afternoon that a black ISIS flag had been flying from the truck’s rear bumper. The vehicle was an electric Ford pickup truck and appears to have been rented, the FBI said. 
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said on social media Jabbar rented the truck on Dec. 30 while living in the Houston area before heading to New Orleans.
Duncan said investigators “do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible” for the attack, and the FBI believes he may have had help carrying it out. Duncan said that the FBI is looking at a “range of suspects” and does “not want to rule anything out” at this stage of the investigation. The FBI is also working to determine the man’s potential affiliations or associations with terrorist associations. A person familiar with the investigation told CBS News that at this point, neither ISIS nor any other foreign terror organization has claimed responsibility for the attack. 
The man drove around barricades and up onto the sidewalk of Bourbon Street, New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said, avoiding barriers that had been placed by police. Kirkpatrick said the man “was trying to run over as many people as he could.” 
“We had a car there, we had barriers there, we had officers there, and he still got around,” Kirkpatrick said. 
The man then exited the car and opened fire on officers, the FBI official said. He died after exchanging gunfire with three responding officers, the FBI said. He was struck by police fire and declared dead at the scene, the New Orleans Police Department said. Two police officers were hit by gunfire but were in stable condition. 
Weapons and two potential improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, were located in the vehicle, Duncan said. At least one other IED was found in the French Quarter, and was detonated by law enforcement, a person familiar with the investigation said. The number of IEDs left behind is a large part of why the FBI believes the man may have had an accomplice, sources tell CBS News. Investigators are combing through video to see if there were accomplices involved in placing the devices, sources told CBS News. 
Further sweeps by law enforcement did not find any more IEDs, Duncan said. Kirkpatrick said police walked the area as a grid, looking for any suspicious items. Anyone who sees anything suspicious should contact officials, Duncan said. 
A long gun was recovered from the scene, law enforcement sources told CBS News. The long gun had a “suppressive device” on it that acted as a silencer, according to sources on the scene. Two sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News the man was wearing body armor. 
A current and a former senior law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CBS News the man rented an Airbnb in New Orleans. A fire broke out at the Airbnb Wednesday, and investigators are examining if there is a link between the blaze and the attack, the source said. Residents in the area have been evacuated.
Duncan asked that anyone with information about the man contact the FBI. A U.S. official confirmed to CBS News that he had previously served in the U.S. military. 
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry called it “a horrific act of violence” and said he and his wife were “praying for all the victims and first responders on scene.” He urged people to avoid the area. 
 “As of now, 15 people are deceased. It will take several days to perform all autopsies. Once we complete the autopsies and talk with the next of kin, we will release the identifications of the victims,” New Orleans Coroner Dr. Dwight McKenna said in a statement. 
The popular tourist district was full of New Year’s Day revelers at the time of the attack.
Witnesses told CBS News reporter Kati Weis that a white truck crashed into people on Bourbon Street at high speed, and the driver then started firing a weapon from inside the vehicle, with police returning fire. Weis saw multiple people on the ground being treated for injuries near the intersection of Bourbon and Canal Streets.
The City of New Orleans said in a statement posted online that 30 people were transported to area hospitals with injuries and 10 people were confirmed dead. Kirkpatrick later said that at least 35 people were hospitalized.
“He was hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” Kirkpatrick said. 
Duncan said the FBI will be leading the investigation. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Justice Department’s National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana will work with the FBI and local officials to support the investigation, Attorney General Merrick Garland said. President Biden was briefed about the attack, the White House said, and his administration has been in touch with Cantrell to offer support. 
Biden said in a statement he has directed his administration to “ensure every resource is available as federal, state, and local law enforcement work assiduously to get to the bottom of what happened as quickly as possible and to ensure that there is no remaining threat of any kind.” 
“My heart goes out to the victims and their families who were simply trying to celebrate the holiday,” Biden said. “There is no justification for violence of any kind, and we will not tolerate any attack on any of our nation’s communities.”
President-elect Donald Trump also acknowledged the attack in a post on TruthSocial. 
“Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department,” Trump said, in part. 
The Sugar Bowl college football playoff game was set to be played at the nearby Superdome later Wednesday, but has been rescheduled for Thursday night. Kirkpatrick said bomb sweeps have been conducted at the Superdome, and said the stadium would be locked down until the game. 
Jeff Hundley, the Chief Executive Officer of the Sugar Bowl, announced the delay at Thursday’s news conference. More details about the rescheduled game will be available in the coming hours, he said. 
“We live in the fun and games world, with what we do, but we certainly recognize the importance of this and we’re going to support it 100%,” Hundley said. 
A student from the University of Georgia, one of the teams playing in the game, was “critically injured” in the attack, according to a statement from the school on social media. The student was not identified. 
Jim and Nicole Mowrer were in New Orleans visiting from Iowa and witnessed the incident. The couple told CBS News they had watched the city’s fireworks display and were enjoying the New Year’s Day atmosphere in the French Quarter when they heard crashing noises coming from down the street. They said they then saw a white truck slam through a barricade “at a high rate of speed,” followed by gunfire and police. The couple said the truck hit people about a block away from where they had been walking.  
“Once the gunfire stopped, we stayed in the alcove until the gunfire stopped, came out into the street, and came across a lot of — several people who had been hit, [we] wanted to see what we could do to help,” Nicole Mowrer said. She said the couple found the victims had died. 
The Mowrers said the victims they saw had injuries from the truck impact, and they did not see any apparent gunshot wounds. They said they left the area once emergency responders started arriving.
In a 2017 memo reviewed by CBS News, the city of New Orleans had acknowledged the risk of a mass casualty incident in the crowded, tourist-friendly French Quarter. The memo specifically referenced vehicle attacks in Nice, France, London, England and New York City. To minimize risk, the city said it planned to establish a camera and surveillance program, a centralized command center, more police patrols and infrastructure upgrades. The city had been in the process of upgrading the pedestrian bollard system in the French Quarter to modernize and bolster protections, with work ongoing through February. 
Pat Milton, Andres Triay, Nicole Sganga, Anna Schecter and Robert Legare contributed to this report.
Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com’s foreign editor, based in the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, prior to which he worked for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., and London.
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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Students of philosophy know this work as one where the Austrian philosopher looks into the intricate relationship between language, logic, and the world. I thought of this Wittgenstein maxim when I came across three different yet similar slices of news towards the end of 2024. In what can only be described as a masterclass in zeitgeist-capturing, three prestigious linguistic institutions have selected words that, together, describe our contemporary world and its many hues of discontent.
In the first week of December, Oxford University Press (OUP) picked “brain rot” as its word of the year, Merriam-Webster’s chose “polarisation”, and the Australian National University picked a portmanteau word—”Colesworth” (a brilliant fusion of Coles and Woolworths, Australia’s two largest supermarket chains). I feel, quite fittingly, in a Wittgenstein way, that these words paint a rather unflattering portrait of our collective consciousness—or perhaps more accurately, our collective unconsciousness.
The selection of “brain rot”, “Colesworth”, and “polarisation” as words of the year presents us with a fascinating triptych of our contemporary challenges.
If it hadn’t made it to OUP’s list, many of you would not have even heard of brain rot. The term has gained popularity in recent years, mainly among younger generations like Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and refers to the deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state because he or she consumes excessively low-quality or unchallenging online content.
Want some examples of content?
“I Spent 12 Hours Trying to Revive My VCR (It Still Hates Me)”
“Ranking Every Sound from Windows XP – The Ultimate Nostalgia Trip”
“How Good Is Your Attention Span? Focus On This Green Dot”.
Brain rot speaks to a phenomenon that social psychologists have long warned about: the cognitive deterioration that can result from constant exposure to fragmentary information. The term evokes both the personal and social implications of our increasingly digitised existence. Interestingly, a writer who foresaw this crisis way before the age of social media or the internet was my all-time favourite media theorist, Neil Postman. “Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education, and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death,” he wrote in the 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death. Just replace “show business” with “internet” or “social media”, and you get the contemporary drift.
Postman’s observation that “Americans no longer talk to each other; they entertain each other” has now evolved into something even more concerning, and this is not just about the US alone; the malice is global. We no longer even properly entertain each other—we merely exchange bite-sized content, our attention spans eroding with each scroll.
Which is why four decades later, as Oxford crowns “brain rot”, Postman’s prophecy reads less like cultural criticism and more like a precise diagnosis. Just look around; you’ll see. Every other person you know with access to a smartphone is exposed to brain rot content and is scrolling away precious time being sucked into this digital black hole, never to return. If you’re still sceptical, surf through your browser’s search history or Instagram activity feed and look for the potential brain rot candidates in your digital consumption—the results will shock you.
The most chilling aspect of reading Amusing Ourselves to Death in 2024 isn’t just its accuracy. It is the realisation that we have far exceeded Postman’s darkest predictions. We haven’t just amused ourselves to death. We have in fact developed a sort of cognitive necrosis that we document and share in real time. In the process, we turn our very decline into content.
I talked about Nicholas Carr in this newsletter some time ago. In The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010), Carr warned us of the neurological impact of constant digital stimulation. He noted that it rewires our capacity for deep thought and sustained attention.
How does it really manifest in our social, political, or personal lives?
The constant barrage of short-form content and algorithmic feeds has impacted our capacity for sustained contemplation, and there have been early studies now that this process leaves us struggling to understand or properly deal with life’s challenges with the depth they deserve. We once might have spent hours processing a difficult conversation with a parent or thinking through a career decision, but we now find ourselves skimming the surface of our own lives. We often treat important choices with the same cursory attention we give to social media posts.
Our relationships and decisions suffer as we lose our ability to sit with discomfort, untangle nuanced emotions, or hold space for perspectives that don’t fit into easily digestible formats—we’re becoming strangers to the very cognitive tools that make us most human. Also, the loss of deep thinking impairs our ability to make informed decisions, understand parents, friends, and colleagues more deeply, and function effectively in our various social roles as voters, activists, etc.
The Australian coinage “Colesworth” expresses the economic anxieties that have swamped not only Australia but much of the world, both developed and developing. It speaks of consumer ire over rising prices, shrinking wages, and corporate greed. The term came from the grassroots social media campaigns where disgruntled shoppers vented their frustrations over the ballooning grocery bills.
The phenomenon is not new. It is as old as capitalism itself: the widening gap between corporate profitability and consumer well-being. Several studies have shown that prices of food and essential commodities have risen above double digits in 2024 alone in many parts of the world, including India. Meanwhile, reports of record profits by corporate giants have added fuel to the fire, with activists accusing them of price-gouging and more.
“Colesworth” reminds me about consumer movements like the “Boycott Nestlé” campaigns of the 1970s or the anti-Walmart sentiment of the 2000s. But unlike those movements, this one shows a convergence of anger and helplessness. When this happens, societal cohesion begins to fray.
This fraying trust is seen across the globe; it can be seen in the farmer protests in India, the European farmer demonstrations against rising costs and environmental regulations, the rise of cost-of-living protests in the UK, and the demonstrations in Argentina over economic austerity measures.
Meanwhile, “polarisation”—Merriam-Webster’s choice—acts as both diagnosis and prognosis of our current sociopolitical condition. The term’s selection shows an acknowledgement of how ideological division has become a social condition affecting everything from family relationships to workplace relations.
The term itself originates from physics. There, it described the alignment of waves in a single direction. By the mid-20th century, it entered the social lexicon to describe divided societies, especially during the Cold War. In 2024, polarisation is no longer confined to politics. Social media creates more and more echo chambers, pushing people further into ideological silos. And, as we know now, from political schisms to cultural battles. Polarisation defines not just how we disagree but how we live, vote, interact, and even fall in love.
In sum, it seems quite Freudian that these three words, picked by three different institutions, help us understand and explain our world.
But what’s the way forward? One word: Resistance. I would like to look at these words as not just descriptors but as catalysts for change, however cliched that might sound. They force us to examine our relationship with information consumption, economic systems, and political discourse. They challenge us to imagine alternatives.
Any corrective approach would demand that we resist the very phenomena these words describe: the deterioration of careful thought, the acceptance of economic injustice, and the comfort of ideological isolation. We must be aware of this and teach our fellow beings to be aware, alert, and act upon it.
So, let us commit. To nurturing our cognitive health through mindful consumption of information (where supporting the work done by publications like Frontline matters). By supporting economic systems that understand and respect human needs. And to build bridges across ideological divides (in the family and beyond).
In 2025 and beyond, may we work toward a vocabulary that speaks not just of our challenges but of our victories in overcoming them. Let us choose and create words that point toward healing, understanding, and collective progress. Let us strive for a society where awareness wins over apathy, compassion over division, and insight over distraction. Here’s to building a life—and a world—anchored in these principles.
Wishing you a meaningful 2025!
For Frontline,
Jinoy Jose P.
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NORFOLK, Va. — The day after New Years can be a tough one for animal rescuers. Fireworks and loud celebrations can scare pets, causing some to run away. Many of those lost pets wind up at area shelters.
“All of the shelters in the area really struggle with this. It’s, you know, a nation-wide concern,” said Tammy Lindquist, Community Engagement Manager at Norfolk SPCA.
Lindquist is one of the many people who work to help pets find forever homes. That’s a big job since she says Norfolk’s SPCA is at full capacity — like many other shelters in the area.
Watch related coverage: Dog abandoned outside Norfolk SPCA adopted in time for the holidays
News 3 reached out to see just how many lost pets are coming into shelters in Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and on the Peninsula after the holiday. We’re waiting for responses, though Lindquist anecdotally said the overall number in Hampton Roads is “significant.”
“There are many animals missing right now,” said Lindquist.
While everyone hopes for a happy reunion, the Coalition for Reuniting Pets and Families reports fewer than 23 percent of all lost pets ever return to their owners.
If your pet is missing Lindquist said there are steps you can take.
Watch: Local animal shelters see surge in lost pets after Fourth of July
“The biggest thing a pet owner can do is make fliers, go to the vet clinic, go into every animal center you can think of in Hampton Roads and beyond. The other place you can post is on all social media. Nextdoor is usually very helpful,” said Lindquist. “One thing we do recommend, however, is that you don’t offer a reward because you can easily get scammed.”
She added that there are others in the community, like Emma Lampert who runs Cliff’s Coonhound Rescue & Trapping, who help find and rescue stray pets too.
“How long do people have to find their missing pets at the shelter before they’re adopted out?” News 3 reporter Erika Craven asked Lindquist.
Watch: Hope For Life Rescue temporarily halts animal intake amid unexpected high costs
“Well, normally a stray hold is ten days,” said Lindquist, though that can vary by locality.
Lindquist said if you find a lost pet you can reach out to local animal care centers. And, she said, it’s a good idea to microchip and register pets to help pet owners find their pet if it goes missing.
“You need to make sure you update that information. That is very, very important,” added Lindquist.
In the meantime, full shelters are always looking for people to foster. For more resources and information on volunteering, fostering or adopting visit the Norfolk SPCA website.
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Internet Archive had a user authentication database with 31 million records compromised in a breach late last month, which was first discovered Wednesday afternoon following a JavaScript alert on the site posted by the threat actor, just as its website was taken down by a distributed denial-of-service intrusion claimed by the BlackMeta hacktivist operation, reports BleepingComputer.

Included in the 6.4 GB SQL database were Internet Archive members’ email addresses, usernames, Bcrypt-hashed passwords and password change timestamps, as well as other internal details as recent as September 28, when the attack was believed to have taken place, according to Have I Been Pwned breach notification service creator Troy Hunt, who obtained a copy of the exfiltrated database more than a week ago. Both Hunt and cybersecurity researcher Scott Helme, who was also part of the breach, have confirmed the legitimacy of the stolen records. Meanwhile, BlackMeta announced plans for additional attacks against Internet Archive, which has yet to comment on the intrusion.
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TechRadar reports that major French multinational IT firm Atos has dismissed a purported Space Bears ransomware attack even as it acknowledged being subjected to a cyberattack.
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Security Affairs reports that numerous Italian websites — including those of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Turin Transport Group, and the Linate and Malpensa airports — have been compromised as part of a distributed denial-of-service attack by pro-Russian hacktivist operation NoName057, which noted the intrusions to have been launched in retaliation of “Italian Russophobes.”
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Utah-based consumer electronics accessories manufacturer ZAGG had its customers’ credit card details compromised following a breach of the third-party FreshClicks app available through software-as-a-service e-commerce platform provider BigCommerce, BleepingComputer reports.

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