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Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Hackers Compromise T-Mobile Customer Data, Steal 15 Million Records In the past year, a staggering number of high-profile hacks have been carried out against various companies and organizations, including a large-scale attack that leaked the personal information of 22 million government employees.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	This Is How We Watch Porn On Our Phones, According To Pornhub Pornhub, the very adult site, realized something early on: People love watching porn on their smartphones.
Fast Company Nikita Richardson	Fingerprints of 5.6 Million Government Employees Stolen In Cyberattack Since it was announced in June that hackers had breached the U.S. Government's Office of Personnel Management database, the full breadth of the crippling cyberattack has gone from bad to worse.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Apple Weathers The First Major Malware Attack On Its App Store Over the weekend, Apple revealed that malware found its way into the App Store on a mass scale after several of China's most popular apps were infected with code that could snoop on iOS devices and steal passwords.
Fast Company October 2015 Baratunde Thurston	Fighting Words Information universalists are applying their feelings to the business decisions of companies and then expressing outrage when we are not, in fact, allowed to say whatever the hell we want.
Fast Company P. Claire Dodson	Human Rights Watch, Transparency Groups Condemn Twitter's Politwoops Ban Last month, Twitter revoked access to its API from Politwoops, a network of sites that automatically archived the deleted tweets of politicians.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Why Kim Kardashian's Instagram Post Was In Violation Of FDA Rules Her paid endorsement did not make mandatory statements about Diclegis' side effects and comply with the same rules that require spoken disclaimers at the close of television commercials for prescription drugs.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Obama Administration Proposes Sanctions In Retaliation For Chinese Cyberhacks In an effort to curb cyberhacking, the White House is currently developing economic sanctions that would impede the operations of Chinese companies in the U.S., the Washington Post reports.
Fast Company Evie Nagy	Mozilla CEO Vows To Fire Anonymous Employee For Hate Speech On Reddit Mozilla CEO Chris Baird has publicly committed to firing a supposed employee spewing hate speech on Reddit -- if the company can figure out who he is.
Fast Company Rose Pastore	Twitter Tries To Help Politicians Delete Tweets Forever, But It Won't Work A network of websites that automatically archived the deleted tweets of politicians has lost access to Twitter's API.
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