💻 Fidelity Data Breach Exposes Data of Over 77,000 Customers

An attacker snuck in by creating two new user accounts. Fidelity assures customers their investments aren’t affected.

In August, a threat actor compromised the data of 77,099 Fidelity Investments customers in Maine, the financial firm said in a breach notification letter to thousands of customers on Oct. 9.

The attacker didn’t access funds in Fidelity investment accounts. However, the hacker obtained personal information — including Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses — and created two new customer accounts. In response, Fidelity shut down the attacker’s access and offered affected customers a credit monitoring and identity restoration service.

“We take this incident and the security of your information very seriously,” the Fidelity Investments Private Office wrote in a sample notice drafted for Maine residents. “As noted above, upon detecting this activity, we promptly took steps to terminate the activity and address this incident.”

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/fidelity-data-breach-oct/

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🇸🇻🪖📹 — In a militaristic tone, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, pays tribute to his military forces by posting a video showing his recent speech honoring the victims of the helicopter crash in the country. Recently, Bukele demonstrated that the greatest salvation and defense of the population against crime lies in courage and military values, in addition to exalting God as the ultimate will for the defense of the common good.

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🇸🇦📞🇺🇸 — 📰 Reuters: Stop Israel from bombing Iran's oil sites, Gulf states urge US

➡️ Gulf states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran's oil sites because they are concerned their own oil facilities could come under fire from Tehran's proxies if the conflict escalates, three Gulf sources told Reuters.

➡️ Israel has promised Iran will pay for its missile attack last week while Tehran has said any retaliation would be met with vast destruction, raising fears of a wider war in the region that could suck in the United States.

➡️ The moves by the Gulf states come after a diplomatic push by non-Arab Shi'ite Iran to persuade its Sunni Gulf neighbours to use their influence with Washington amid rising concerns Israel could target Iran's oil production facilities.

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🇸🇦📞🇺🇸 — Reuters regarding the Israeli-Iranian tensions:

➡️ As part of their attempts to avoid being caught in the crossfire, Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are also refusing to let Israel fly over their airspace for any attack on Iran and have conveyed this to Washington, the three sources close to government circles said.

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🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇸🇦 — Reuters regarding the Israeli-Iranian tensions:

➡️ During meetings this week, Iran warned Saudi Arabia it could not guarantee the safety of the Gulf kingdom's oil facilities if Israel were given any assistance in carrying out an attack, a senior Iranian official and an Iranian diplomat told Reuters.

📝 Ali Shihabi, a Saudi analyst close to the Saudi royal court, said:

"The Iranians have stated: 'If the Gulf states open up their airspace to Israel, that would be an act of war'."

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🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇸🇦 — 📰 Wall Street journal: Iran’s Secret Warning to U.S. Allies: Don’t Help Israel, or You’re Next

Tehran is threatening in secret diplomatic backchannels to target the oil-rich Arab Gulf states and other American allies in the Middle East if their territories or airspace are used for an attack on Iran, said Arab officials.

➡️ Israel has threatened Tehran with a severe reprisal after Iran fired about 180 ballistic missiles at Israel earlier this month, with some Israeli officials and commentators pushing for damaging strikes on Tehran’s nuclear facilities or oil infrastructure.

➡️ In that event, Iran has warned it would respond with devastating hits on Israel’s civilian infrastructure, and would retaliate against any Arab state that facilitated the attack, the officials said.

➡️ The Arab officials said the countries that Iran has threatened include Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, all of which host U.S. troops.

➡️ These states have told the Biden administration that they don’t want their military infrastructure or airspace to be used by the U.S. or Israel for any offensive operations against Iran, the officials said.

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🇨🇳📉❓🇯🇵🖨📈 Japanese bonds trade lower than China's for the first time ever

🔶 Japanese 30 year government bonds now yield more interest than Chinese 10 year bonds.

🔶 Deflationary conditions have rocked China's economy as the PBoC has refused to devalue the Yuan, a move historically done to maintain Chinese industrial competitiveness.

🔶 Chinese officials and central bank authorities unleashed strong domestic stimulus shortly after the US Fed cut rates in September in hopes of lifting the Chinese economy and Chinese stock prices.

🔶 Beijing has been reluctant to stimulate its economy or devalue the Yuan, as devaluation would damage the Yuan's nascent attempt at becoming a credible reserve currency overseas.

🔶 At the same time, Japan has finally seen a whiff of inflation not seen since the 1980s. This has put the Bank of Japan on its current path of rate hikes, while the rest of the world, and especially China, are on a path of rate cuts and disinflation.

🔶 This is likely due to Japan running out of workers now outweighing depressed spending caused by an older population skew.

🔶 Similar to Europe a decade ago, China is now experiencing its first wave of mass retirement, while the baby bust has not yet fully caught up to drastically erode the size of the Chinese labor force.

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🛢🗺🗺Immensely detailed Middle East oil asset map and infographic from @SPGCI

https://x.com/Rory_Johnston/status/1844455974129856674

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🇰🇵❌🇰🇷❗️ — North Korean State media reports that South Korean drones have flown into the North Korean Capital, Pyongyang over the past hours and dropped Anti-Communist leaflets for the local population

➡️ North Korea say this requires retaliatory action and forceful action

➡️ The South Korean military states it wasn't their drones

➡️ South Korean Anti-Communist & nationalist activist groups, however, have not commented yet. It is known that some civilian groups in South Korea have a history of flying leaflets into North Korea via large balloons calling on North Korean population to rise up against the Juche Regime

➡️ Via its state media (the only allowed in DPRK), North Korea released a footage that they believe are drone(s) over Pyongyang.

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