MoneyGram has confirmed a data breach that exposed sensitive customer data to hackers, forcing its services offline for five days in September 2024. The American payment and money transfer platform, which operates through 350,000 locations across 200 countries and via its mobile app and website, revealed hackers stole a varied amount of sensitive customer information. …
DSNS rescue service The overnight attack was the fourth on the Odesa region in five days The head of Ukraine’s Odesa region has said its three ports are “not possible” to protect fully because they span such a large area and Russia has intensified its missile attacks. He was speaking to the BBC after a…
Taylor Swift’s brass-necked Mother, Andrea, apparently threatened to cancel her daughter’s London gigs if police didn’t give her a blue light escort from her hotel to Wembley stadium. And Scotland Yard’s response to that threat should have been: “Do exactly as you like, madam. The Met Police are not guns for hire.” And they’re not,…
Reuters Sir Keir Starmer and John Swinney met at the talks in Edinburgh Sir Keir Starmer has chaired the first-ever meeting of a new Council of the Nations and Regions in Edinburgh. It brought the prime minister together with the leaders of the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as England’s…
Atlantic’s Ewoyaa project will mark Ghana’s first lithium mine Atlantic Lithium is tantalisingly close to breaking ground at its flagship Ewoyaa Lithium Project in Ghana. Mineral resource estimates at Ewoyaa received a shot in the arm in July and just this week, Atlantic secured an operating permit from the Minerals Commission of Ghana. This marks…
The digital media company Vox Media signed the YouTube creator Kenny Beecham to its podcast network Friday, part of a broader strategy from the company as it seeks to position its podcast portfolio as a multichannel offering that goes beyond audio. “As video has become a bigger part of the conversation in the podcast space,…
Melissa Torres is leaving WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Nexstar NBC affiliate said Torres is moving out west to work at another Nexstar station. By the goodbye photo we posted, it looks like she’s going to KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “I’m filled with a multitude of emotions as I close this chapter in my…
A Labour MP has launched a campaign to cut the price of Freddo chocolate bars to 5p. Patrick Hurley, who represents Southport, has said he set up a petition after speaking to students at a school in his constituency. Announcing the move on social media, he said: “20 pence for a Freddo is too much,…
Tattoos are everywhere nowadays – peeping out of shirtsleeves during office meetings, adorning the shoulders of neighborhood baristas. Nearly a third of Americans are tattooed, according to the Pew Research Center. And more than half of lesbian, gay or bisexual Americans are inked, according to data from the same organization. Tattoos can discreetly signal identity…
Leyton Orient, one of London’s oldest professional football clubs, is kicking off a search for new investors. Sky News understands that the O’s, who were founded in 1881, have appointed advisers to sell a substantial stake in the club. Prospective investors have begun being sounded out in recent days about a deal, according to insiders….
