snowflake

The black-and-white, four-minute animation, called Little Shrew, is set to her 2011 track Snowflake and aims to raise money and awareness for the charity War Child.

While some people may say this new communication trend is further proof of us being "generation snowflake", it's actually far from that.

AT&T says the breach occurred in a company connection to a third-party cloud data service called Snowflake, to which it had entrusted its customer data.

As it happens, some 165 of Snowflake’s corporate clients may also have been targeted by the hackers who struck AT&T. An ongoing investigation by cybersecurity experts suggests, however, that the fault isn’t Snowflake’s — it’s the fault of those clients, who didn’t observe best security practices.

Reports from cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock allege that cloud software provider Snowflake was the target of the attack, and that hackers claimed the ability to breach other Snowflake customers.