EasyJet suffers a major cyberattack
Budget airline EasyJet announced on Tuesday that it has suffered a major cyberattack from a “highly sophisticated” source. The hack left 9 million customers details’ exposed. EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren said in a statement that the company takes the cybersecurity of its systems seriously, “however, this is an evolving threat as cyber attackers get ever more sophisticated.”
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A white female professor who lied about being black
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Singapore fights the biggest dengue outbreak in history
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