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Hong Kong airliner Cathay Pacific announced Wednesday it discovered that up to 9.4 million passenger records were breached this spring, per The Guardian.
Why it matters: Information including names, dates of birth, credit card numbers, passport numbers, identity card numbers, and historical travel information was accessed by attackers — and all that could be cross-referenced with other data repositories to conduct identity theft.
President Trump said Monday that TikTok will be shut down in the U.S. if it hasn't been bought by Microsoft or another company by Sept. 15.
Why it matters: Trump appears to have backed off his threat to immediately ban TikTok after speaking with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who said Sunday that the company will pursue discussions with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to purchase the app in the U.S.
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The Manhattan District Attorney's office suggested for the first time Monday that it's investigating President Trump and his company for "alleged bank and insurance fraud," the New York Times first reported.
The state of play: The disclosure was made in a filing in federal court that seeks to force accounting firm Mazars USA to comply with a subpoena for eight years of Trump's personal and corporate tax returns.