DeepSeek, founded by Liang Wenfeng, is an AI development firm located in Hangzhou, China. The company focuses on developing open source Large Language Models (LLMs) and specializes in data analytics and machine learning. DeepSeek gained global recognition in January 2025 with the release of its R1 reasoning model rivalling OpenAI's o1 model in performance but at a substantially lower cost.

Community Health Center (CHC) is a non-profit founded in 1972 and headquartered in Middletown, Connecticut. It offers a broad range of services, including dentistry, primary care, urgent care, specialty medical services, and behavioral health. CHC provides healthcare services to residents in various parts of the state, including Bristol, Hartford, Waterbury, Middletown, Stamford, and New Britain.

PowerSchool was founded in 1997 and is known for its expertise in providing cutting-edge education technology within the education community. It currently serves over 60 million students globally. The company has a robust intelligent system tailored to meet each student’s individual needs and serves educators in over 90 countries globally, including the United States. PowerSchool has its headquarters in Folsom.

Popularly known as text messages, SMS messages are one of the widely used communication channels by Americans. They are generally used for various purposes. For instance, besides being a channel of communication among individuals, several millions of Americans rely on SMS systems to access and secure their social media, email, and online banking accounts, particularly through OTPs (one-time-passcodes), which are typically delivered via SMS.

Recently, the security team at LEAKD.COM discovered that about 5 million United States credit cards and users’ personal details had been leaked online. This discovery came about when the security team found 5 terabytes of sensitive data exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, a cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services that is used to store customer information. According to the security team at LEAKD.COM, the party responsible for this credit card leak/breach remains unknown.