A worker wearing a face mask is seen sewing ice-skating shoes at a manufacturing factory in the ice and snow sports equipment industry park in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China’s Hebei province. China’s economic growth slowed to a still-strong 7.9pc over a year earlier in the three months ending in June as a rebound from the coronavirus levelled off.—AP Acting like a spy agency There’s an organisation where children of employees have to sign nondisclosure agreements before attending company parties and where a parent had to explain to his 8-year-old that she couldn’t exchange Pokémon with friends because the boss forbids her from connecting her Nintendo Switch to the internet. When he goes to work, that same father has to leave his made-to-order suit, luxury French watch, and classy leather shoes in the closet, donning a $9 Uniqlo T-shirt and jeans to blend in with the crowd near the office. This organisation isn’t an underground criminal group or an intelligence agency — it’s Payward Inc., the San Francisco-based company established in 2011 to operate the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, which investors now value at $10bn. Its chief security officer says ransomware attacks often start with cybercriminals digging up personal information about employees online and using it to tailor phishing emails containing malicious software. Payward’s guiding principle is that a lax security mindset in one’s private life bleeds over to work.