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Australia passes sweeping anti-encryption bill giving police power to implant malware and insert backdoors, despite opposition from experts, tech companies - TechCrunch

We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.

Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/30/starwood-hotels-says-500-million-guest-records-stolen-in-massive-data-breach/

contained a guest’s name, postal address, phone number, date of birth, gender, email address, passport number, […] arrival and departure information, reservation date […]

Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/16/18098286/vovox-security-breach-two-factor-authentication-2fa-codes-exposed

anyone could have monitored a near-real-time data stream to find the relevant two-factor authentication code sent after trying to log into someone else’s account.

Facebook bug let websites read ‘likes’ and interests from a user’s profile – TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/facebook-bug-website-leak-likes-interests-profile/

The vulnerability exposed the user and their friends’ interests, even if their privacy settings were set so that interests were only visible to the user’s friends