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2015 Marriott Breach: Prelude To 2018 Cyberattack?

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Marriott International , which announced last week it was the victim of a hack in which the bad guys accessed its reservation database for Starwood properties, could have stopped the breach years earlier. It said it learned of it on Sept.

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Ukraine Hacker, Others Charged In Hacking SEC’s EDGAR Database

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Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database. The accused hacked into the SEC’s EDGAR database via a Lithuanian server and shared the information with a group of traders, reported Reuters. According to a report in Reuters citing a 16-count indictment filed with the U.S. Russia, and Ukraine. The group made $4.1

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Why Consumers Love The CFPB Complaint Database (And Why FIs And Lawmakers Don’t)

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As is often the case with things associated with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , the database it uses to log consumer complaints is an oddly controversial and touchy topic. The CFPB handled around 271,600 in 2015, up 8 percent from 2014. The CFPB says companies respond to 97 percent of the complaints.

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For Execs, Gluten-Free Is So 2015

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But, these companies are no longer touting their gluten-free initiatives on earnings calls, as General Mills, Hain Celestial, McCormick, and other players frequently did in 2014-2015. (We According to the CB Insights database, the gluten-free market may hit $5B globally by 2021.

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The United States Of Startups: The Most Well-Funded Tech Startup In Every US State

CB Insights

Using the CB Insights database, we identified the most-well funded VC-backed technology startups by state based on disclosed equity funding. We excluded funding from debt as well as lines of credit, and only considered companies that have raised at least $1M of equity funding since 2015 to date (1/8/18). First Name. AfterSchool.

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India’s Jana Bank Left KYC Customer Data Exposed

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Researcher Jeremiah Fowler first discovered an accessible database that was eventually revealed to be owned by Jana Bank and included sensitive customer data including Voter ID, driver’s license, passport, PAN Card, transaction, email, username and other information, part of the bank’s Know Your Customer verification database.

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The United States Of Fintech: The Most Well-Funded Fintech Startup In Each State

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Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. We only included companies with at least $100,000 raised.

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