🕵️‍♀️ ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists

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ByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 Journalists. ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, said on Thursday that an internal investigation found that employees had inappropriately obtained the data of U.S. TikTok users, including two reporters. Over the summer, a few employees on a… (Cecilia Kang / The New York Times)

Cecilia Kang @ceciliakang

NEW: ByteDance Found In an Internal Investigation that Employees Obtained Data of 2 U.S. Journalists

nytimes.comByteDance Inquiry Finds Employees Obtained User Data of 2 JournalistsThe company’s internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.

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LastPass says hackers stole customers' password vaults. Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers' encrypted password vaults, which store its customers' passwords and other secrets, in a data breach earlier this year. (Zack Whittaker via TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

🚨 LastPass says customers' password vaults were stolen in its recent data breach. tcrn.ch/3Vl4XTR

tcrn.chLastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaultsThe password manager giant said hackers stole both encrypted and unencrypted customer data, including password vaults.

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Google tells employees more of them will be at risk for low performance ratings next year. Google has released new details of its performance system overhaul and it shows employees will more easily fall into lower-rated categories. Employees' questions at a recent all-hands meeting showed a lack of trust in leadership to be forthright… (Jennifer Elias / CNBC)

Jennifer Elias @jenn_elias

New: More Google employees will be at risk for low performance ratings and fewer are expected to get high marks, compared to years past, according to internal communications we've obtained.

cnbc.comGoogle tells employees more of them will be at risk for low performance ratings next yearGoogle has released new details of its performance system overhaul internally, and it shows employees will more easily fall into lower-rated categories.

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Meta agrees to pay $725mn to settle Cambridge Analytica case. Proposed figure would be largest settlement achieved in a US data privacy class action and biggest paid by Facebook parent Receive free Meta Platforms updates We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Meta Platforms news every… (Cristina Criddle / Financial Times)

Financial Times @FT

Meta agrees to pay $725mn to settle Cambridge Analytica case

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FTX Friends Flip on SBF. Happy holidays! Of course there will be several FTX movies, and maybe the most cinematic scene in the whole story is the meeting that Caroline Ellison, the chief executive officer of Alameda Research, FTX’s affiliated trading firm, held to tell her employees that they’d been stealing FTX customer money.… (Matt Levine via Bloomberg)

Matt Levine @matt_levine

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