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Hackers threaten to leak data of 37 million clients of cheating website

July 20, 2015 creative biderman, breach, credit, credit-card, dating-website, function, krebsonsecurity, leak-details, media, said-it-had

Hackers threatened to leak details including the credit card information, nude photos and sexual fantasies of as many as 37 million customers of a dating website that caters to cheating spouses, the KrebsOnSecurity blog reported. The dating website AshleyMadison.com's Canadian parent, Avid Life Media, confirmed the breach on its systems, and said it had since secured the site and was working with law enforcement agencies to trace those behind the attack

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WTO negotiators agree tariff cuts on more IT products

July 19, 2015 creative biderman, credit-card, dating-website, expand-the-list, krebsonsecurity, list, media, nations-had, tentative-deal, trade, weekend

World trade negotiators seeking to eliminate tariffs on information technology (IT) products agreed over the weekend to expand the list of items covered. Participants said the 54 nations had struck a tentative deal to expand to about 200 the IT products on which tariffs would be dropped. The list had an annual trade value of some $1 trillion, the World Trade Organization said late on Saturday.