Data of more than 500 million Facebook users were compromised and published in a hacker forum. The information included emails and phone numbers of the users, as confirmed this Saturday by a cybercrime expert from magazine Business Insider.
Even though the data was suggested from a 2019 leak,…
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US works on the development of the digital dollar
Boston Fed Senior Vice President of Secure Payments and Fintech Research, James Cunha and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working to develop the digital dollar.
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Despite the…
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Since the…
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"It is the first…
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This…
Digital art is sold for $ 69 million
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In a statement, Christie's explained that the piece…
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Likewise, Nuvei clients can even use Ripple (XRP), despite the…
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The easy…
More than 2 billion young people without Internet access
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One of the main reasons is that digital…