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• Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics

• AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~$700M settlement to resolve federal and state probes and a national class-action lawsuit over the breach disclosed in Sept. 2017

• Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: Tinder is testing letting users pay it directly in its Android app, bypassing the Play Store and avoiding Google's 30% cut   —  - Match Group, Netflix and Spotify side-stepping to avoid costs

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• Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: How Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are racing for dominance as cloud platforms for game streaming, as the gaming industry is set to generate $152B in 2019

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• Financial Times: Sources: NSO Group claims it can read authentication tokens on phones infected with its spyware to access victims' data on iCloud and other cloud services

• Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: Former NSA contractor Harold Martin sentenced to nine years in prison for the theft of 50TB+ of classified government files

• Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: US Department of Education: hackers breached an ERP system of 62 colleges, created student accounts, and used them “almost immediately for criminal activity”

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• Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Medallia, a customer experience management platform, closes up 76% on its first day trading, after raising $326M at a valuation of $2.5B in its IPO

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• 4½ hours ago Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: Instagram “tag cleaners” have flooded a murdered user's tagged photos with pleasant images to combat trolls and drown out tagged images of gore

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• 10 hours ago AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~$700M settlement to resolve federal and state probes and a national class-action lawsuit over the breach disclosed in Sept. 2017

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