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AT&T resets millions of passcodes after millions of customer records leaked
TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant AT&T announced on Saturday (Mar 30) that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after it determined that compromised customer data was “released on the dark…
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AT&T resets millions of passcodes after customer records leaked
TELECOMMUNICATIONS giant AT&T announced on Saturday (Mar 30) that it had reset the passcodes of 7.6 million customers after it determined that compromised customer data was “released on the dark…
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Frustration for some of Bankman-Fried’s victims who hoped for stiffer sentence
SOME former FTX customers expressed anger and disappointment on Thursday after Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto exchange’s former billionaire boss, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $8 billion from customers.…
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Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud
SAM Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing US$8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in…
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Trump’s meme stock is skyrocketing but for how long?
FORMER US president Donald Trump is richer than he’s ever been, and it’s all thanks to a back-door deal to take his latest venture public. Trump Media & Technology Group,…
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Baltimore bridge, port recovery will be ‘very long road’
CLEANUP efforts were set to begin on Thursday at the scene of the catastrophic bridge collapse over Baltimore harbor, as authorities warned of extensive work before the major US port…
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Trafigura pleads guilty, agrees to pay about US$127 million to settle US probe
COMMODITY trader Trafigura has agreed to pay about US$127 million to resolve a probe into bribes paid to Brazilian officials to secure oil contracts, the US Department of Justice and the firm…
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Remains of two people recovered following Baltimore bridge collapse
THE bodies of two construction workers were found in the cold waters of Baltimore harbour on Wednesday, trapped in their red pick-up truck after a giant cargo ship slammed into…
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Coinbase must face US securities regulator’s lawsuit
A FEDERAL judge in Manhattan on Wednesday (Mar 27) said the US securities regulator’s lawsuit against Coinbase can move forward, but dismissed one claim the agency made against the largest…
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Biden’s biofuel push risks dethroning corn as king of US crops
AMERICAN farmers will plant more corn than soybeans in 2024 – as they have in most years for over a century. But beyond that, a green diesel boom threatens to…
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S&P Global downgrades outlooks on five regional US banks to ‘negative’
RATINGS agency S&P Global on Tuesday (Mar 26) downgraded five regional United States banks to due to their commercial real estate (CRE) exposures, in a move likely to reignite investor…
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Chinese TikTok sellers complain of under-fire platform tightening US rule enforcement
CHINESE e-commerce vendors that want to sell products on TikTok Shop in the US as an alternative to Amazon are upset by moves they say the short video app has…
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Six presumed dead after crippled cargo ship knocks down Baltimore bridge
SIX workers were missing and presumed dead from a bridge that collapsed in Baltimore Harbor early on Tuesday when a massive cargo ship crippled by a power loss rammed into…
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Baltimore bridge rescuers lose hope for more survivors, retrieve black box from freight ship
US FEDERAL safety investigators recovered the black box from the freight ship that crashed into a Baltimore bridge, the agency chief said on Wednesday (Mar 27) as rescuers looked for…
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Ripple should pay more than US$2 billion for sales, SEC says
RIPPLE Labs should pay more than US$2 billion in fines and penalties for selling its XRP token to institutional investors, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) told a federal…
