Top 10 data hacks from 2020.

Here is a list of “the top 10” data hacks from 2020 [so far] because it is list time of the year again:

As part of “their efforts to rein in some of the most powerful Chinese internet companies” the government of China is apparently pestering the Ant Group.

https://pingyour.com/blog/ssxn

Q: “what happens if hackers are inside the Pentagon’s networks?”

*shakes Magic 8 Ball*

A: “Very difficult to defend”

https://pingyour.com/blog/ege5

Reports are in that “Comcast will raise prices for TV and internet in January” because reasons and why the heck not, of course:

https://pingyour.com/blog/pgxl

Here is a map that shows how the explosion in Nashville this weekend has “knocked out” AT&T service in the US southeast:

https://pingyour.com/blog/zmjt

This post drops a dime on the “dark past” of “algorithms associating appearance and criminality”

https://pingyour.com/blog/8br9

Believe it or not a ‘deepfake’ Queen has delivered an “alternative Christmas speech, in warning about misinformation”

https://pingyour.com/blog/8br9

Reports are in of a Bitcoin miner purchase that is *not* minor as “one of the largest enterprise Bitcoin mining companies in North America” has agreed “to purchase 70,000 miners for $170 million”

That is a major miner purchase.

https://pingyour.com/blog/x3ez