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Nov 30

Watch 5:02
News Wrap: Ukraine closes border to Russian men

Friday in our news wrap, Ukraine escalated its standoff with Russia. President Petro Poroshenko closed the border to all Russian men ages 16 to 60, saying he wants to prevent fighters from joining rebels in the eastern part of Ukraine.

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Nov 30

Watch 6:48
Why companies are still failing to protect our personal data

A newly announced breach into the Marriott hotel chain’s reservation database is one of the biggest hacks in history, affecting half a billion customers in all. Amna Nawaz speaks with David Kennedy, co-founder of security firm TrustedSec, to understand what's…

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Apr 24

Company formerly known as Yahoo will pay $35 million to settle federal charges over 2014 hack

By Associated Press

Personal data was stolen from hundreds of millions of Yahoo users in the December 2014 breach attributed to Russian hackers.

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Apr 10

Facebook facing new federal lawsuits over handling of user data

By Associated Press

Facebook faces two new federal lawsuits for allegedly violating the trust of the millions of users whose personal data was shared with the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica.

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Sep 08

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Did the Equifax hack put your personal data at risk? Here’s what to do now.

By PBS News Hour

Half of all Americans could have had their sensitive data compromised by a security breach at the credit reporting agency Equifax. William Brangham joins John Yang to discuss what happened and what consumers should do to safeguard their credit.

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Sep 07

Watch 3:04
News Wrap: Equifax data hacked for roughly 143 million Americans

By PBS News Hour

In our news wrap Thursday, more than a third of the U.S. population could be affected by a data breach of the credit monitoring firm Equifax. The company says intruders gained access to customer information, including social security numbers and…

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Dec 14

Hackers stole data from 1 billion Yahoo accounts

By Joshua Barajas

Yahoo said an "unauthorized third party" hacked these accounts in August 2013.

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Feb 26

IRS: Computer breach bigger than first thought, with 700K victims

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The IRS said Friday that the number of taxpayers whose tax information may have been stolen by computer hackers now exceeds 700,000 -- more than double the agency's previous estimate.

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Dec 20

Sanders software breach spotlights campaign reliance on voter data

By Zachary Green

Political campaigns have always had a vested interest in gathering as much information about voters as possible. The data breach between the Clinton and Sanders teams proves just how valuable that information is.

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Dec 20

Sanders campaign suspends two more staffers over data breach

By Associated Press

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign has suspended two more staffers after it was accused of exploiting a breach in a voter database to access files kept by Hillary Clinton's campaign.

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