🇨🇳 Cyberattack on News Corp believed to be linked to China

Plus: 📉 Meta set for $200 Billion Wipeout, 🔏 New IRS partner ID.me logs the 'inferred citizenship' of all users, and more ...

Feb 04, 2022

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🇨🇳 Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China
📉 Meta (Facebook Owner) set for $200 Billion Wipeout
🔏 New IRS partner ID.me logs the 'inferred citizenship' of all users
🔻 Twitter expands downvote test worldwide
Amazon increases the price of Prime nearly 17% to $139 per year

— Jose Montes de Oca

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Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, Others

(Alexandra Bruell & Sadie Gurman via Wall Street Journal)

Byron Tau @ByronTau

News Corp, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, discloses a hack aimed at its journalists email accounts and documents that appears to have links to China and was believed to be conducted for intelligence purposes.

wsj.comCyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, OthersNews Corp was the target of a hack that accessed emails and documents of some employees, an incursion a cybersecurity consultant said was likely meant to gather intelligence to benefit China’s interests.

Facebook Owner Meta Set for $200 Billion Wipeout, Among Worst in Market History

(Thyagaraju Adinarayan & Jan-Patrick Barnert via Bloomberg)

Frances Haugen @FrancesHaugen

Unfortunately, this massive drop in Facebook's stock price last night also represents massive losses in retirement accounts and pensions nationwide. This is what happens when public companies *lie* about material issues — real people get hurt. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New IRS partner ID.me logs the 'inferred citizenship' of all users

(Caroline Haskins via Business Insider)

Caroline Haskins @caro1inehaskins

New (no paywall) -ID.me keeps "inferred citizenship," face pics, voiceprints, & tons of other sensitive info -Police, ICE, CBP, etc can ask for any of it -ID.me wouldn't tell me when, or if, it would push back against data requests from law enforcement

businessinsider.comThe IRS is working with a startup called ID.me that stores the ‘inferred citizenship’ of some users. That creates a huge new pool of person…Observers worry how much information ID.me collects and how willing the company seems to be to share it with authorities when asked.

Twitter expands downvote test worldwide

(James Vincent via The Verge)

The Verge @verge

Twitter expands downvote test worldwide theverge.com/2022/2/4/22917…

Amazon increases the price of Prime nearly 17% to $139 per year

(Annie Palmer via CNBC)

CNBC Now @CNBCnow

Amazon is raising the price of its annual Prime membership to $139 from $119

cnbc.comAmazon increases the price of Prime nearly 17% to $139 per yearAmazon hasn’t raised the price of its Prime membership program since 2018, when it increased from $99 to $119, the current fee.

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