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DirecTV and Dish’s on-and-off merger saga switches back to off
DirecTV has dropped its plans to acquire Dish, the company announced Thursday. The deal would’ve created a TV service megamerger, but it fell through after Dish bondholders rejected the takeover. “While we believed a combination of DIRECTV and DISH would have benefitted all stakeholders, we have terminated the transaction because the proposed Exchange Terms were necessary to protect DIRECTV’s balance…
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The saga of the National Public Data Social Security number leak continues
Now, Krebs On Security reports a roughly identical website to NPD called recordscheck.net was found to be hosting an archive containing site logins as well as source code for some of the site’s tools in plaintext. That would’ve been enough information to access the same consumer records as NPD. The now-removed file contained email data belonging to NPD founder Salvatore…
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