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Capital One data breach compromises 106 million customers’ personal data

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by on July 30, 2019 at 5:05 am
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US-based bank, Capital One, revealed last night a data breach that exposed data of exposed the data of 106 million credit card applicants including names, phone numbers, addresses, and dates of birth. In addition, 140,000 US social security numbers, 80,000 bank account numbers, and 1 million Canadian social insurance numbers were also stolen. The bank said while no credit card account numbers or login details were compromised, the lone hacker got hold of credit scores, credit limits, balances, and payment history. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested the hacker, named Paige Thompson, behind the data breach, in Seattle. According to a…

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Researchers: Anonymized data does little to protect user privacy

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by on July 30, 2019 at 12:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Providing third-parties with data is a necessary cost of living in the 21st century. Whether it’s securing auto insurance, undergoing a routine examination at the dentist, or chatting up friends and relatives on Facebook, each of us will hand over about 1.7MB of data per second next year, according to one recent report. While our anxiety around how this data will be used has grown considerably in recent years, culminating with the launch of a federal probe by the DOJ in recent weeks, it’s done little to stop the flow of information from individuals to companies, or from one company to…

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Rockstar Games reportedly claimed GTA V was ‘culturally British’ to skimp on taxes

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by on July 29, 2019 at 8:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


A British think tank has revealed in a new study that Rockstar Games has apparently ducked taxes in the UK and received millions of pounds in subsidies — the latter by claiming at least one of its games, Grand Theft Auto V, to be a British game. Tax Watch UK this week published a report titled “Gaming the System.” It claims that, through offshoring of profits, Rockstar North (the primary development studio of GTA V) has not paid any UK taxes in ten years. In the five years after GTA V’s release, Rockstar and parent company Take-Two’s UK-based studios claimed a profit…

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