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Boston Harbor Cruises has a new name
Updated April 6, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Boston Harbor Cruises has a new name
The new owner of Bostonâs largest boat operator has rebranded the business, marking an end of an era for a name, Boston Harbor Cruises, that lasted nearly a century. Hornblower Group, the Crestview Partners-owned parent company, renamed BHC on Tuesday as Boston Harbor City Cruises. Hornblower acquired BHC from members of the Nolan family in 2019, and installed Bob Lawler as the top executive in Boston last year. The name change affects the companyâs 40-plus vessels docked in Boston Harbor, including the Spirit and Odyssey dinner cruises, and reflects the creation of the companyâs City Experiences umbrella group. Hornblower unveiled the new name as part of a broader rebranding across its various boat businesses across North America, serving locations ranging from the San Francisco Bay to the Statue of Liberty. â JON CHESTO
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has criticised Facebook for a lack of communication over how and when at least 1.3 million Irish mobile phone numbers came to be publicly leaked and shared.
The breach, which is part of a global leak of more than 500 million accounts, has left more than a quarter of Irish mobile phone users open to more fraudulent calls, scam texts and bogus WhatsApp messages.
It has also left thousands who are in sensitive work positions – from prison officers to gardaí and women’s refuge managers – vulnerable to harassment or stalking through their mobile numbers being made public.
Facebook claims data of 533 million users was stolen long time ago, experts say breach is fresh
Facebook claims data of 533 million users was stolen long time ago, experts say breach is fresh
A report noted that even if the Facebook breach dates back to 2019, it will cause trouble to the company as, under certain privacy regulations including Europe s GDPR, the social media giant should have alerted its users about the breach.
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Facebook noted that the data breach of 533 million users dates back to 2019 and that it was fixed in 2019.
Aaron Gal, a security researcher reported that the vulnerability was spotted in early 2020.
The big story: Facebook faces questions over data breach
A data breach involving personal data (such as email addresses and phone numbers) of more than 500 million Facebook accounts came to light over the weekend thanks to a story in Business Insider. Although Facebook said the breach was related to a vulnerability that was “found and fixed” in August 2019, the Irish Data Protection Commission Facebook’s lead data regulator in the European Union suggested that it’s seeking the “full facts” in the matter.
“The newly published dataset seems to comprise the original 2018 (pre-GDPR) dataset and combined with additional records, which may be from a later period,” said deputy commissioner Graham Doyle in a statement. “A significant number of the users are EU users. Much of the data appears to been data scraped some time ago from Facebook public profiles.”