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Cyberattacks on Britain’s Marks & Spencer and Co-op Group started with hackers impersonating employees while contacting the retailers’ IT help desks, technology specialist site BleepingComputer reported. The site said the hackers were able to convince the help desks to reset …
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UBS Group AG agreed to pay $511 million to settle a U.S. investigation into how Credit Suisse Group, the Swiss bank it bought, helped rich Americans evade taxes even after pledging to stop the practice a decade ago. A Credit …
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Raytheon Company, RTX Corporation, and Nightwing Group LLC, and Nightwing Intelligence Solutions LLC, have agreed to pay $8.4 million to resolve allegations that Raytheon violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in contracts or subcontracts …
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Allstate Corp. CEO Tom Wilson said he does not expect auto insurers to get more aggressive on pricing as the industry’s increases seem to have leveled off. For the most part, Wilson explained to analysts during a call to discuss …
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TeleMessage is investigating a potential security incident after a hacker claimed to steal sensitive data from the app, which former National Security Adviser Michael Waltz allegedly used to communicate with other members of the Trump administration. A spokesperson for TeleMessage …
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Rivian said on Monday that it will invest $120 million to bring its key parts suppliers near its plant in Illinois, as the electric vehicle-maker seeks to lower the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Mexico and Canada. …
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Nearly four months after wildfires reduced thousands of Los Angeles-area homes to rubble and ash, some residents are starting to rebuild. In the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, construction workers recently began placing wooden beams to frame a house on a lot …
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The U.K. supermarket chain Co-op said hackers were able to access and extract customer data from one of its systems during a recent cyberattack. “The accessed data included information relating to a significant number of our current and past members,” …
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Last year, New York City settled 13,397 claims against it for a total cost of $1.94 billion, the most ever for one fiscal year, up from $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2023, the city’s financial monitor has reported. Police ($309.56 …
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Even as auto insurance rates level out, drivers are still looking for a better deal. The rate of U.S. auto insurance premium price increases slowed to less than 2% at the end of 2024, down from 13% at the beginning …
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