Snowflake Inc.
As of November 2024[update], the company had 10,618 customers, including >800 members of the Forbes Global 2000, and processed 4.2 billion daily queries across its platform.[1] Snowflake Inc. was founded in July 2012 in San Mateo, California, by Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski.Dageville and Cruanes previously worked as data architects at Oracle Corporation; Żukowski was a co-founder of Vectorwise.[16][17][18][19] Data breaches affected Ticketmaster,[20] Advance Auto Parts,[21] Santander Bank, Neiman Marcus, LendingTree, AT&T, Pure Storage, Teg.com.au,[22] and Bausch Health.[23] Connor Riley Moucka, 25 years old, (alias waifu of the hacking group "The Comm") was arrested by Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, police (at the request of the U.S.) on October 30, 2024; a Washington state court has issued an indictment on charges of conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, extortion, and aggravated identity theft.