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235/2018 • 13 OCTOBER, 2018 WEEKEND ISSUE

DAILY NEWS IN ENGLISH

Facebook: Hackers accessed data of 29 million users Facebook originally thought more than 50 million accounts had been affected

Hackers accessed data from 29 million Facebook accounts as part of the security breach the social media giant disclosed two weeks ago.

Turkish court lifts travel ban on US pastor Andrew Brunson A Turkish court sentenced US pastor Andrew Brunson to over three years in jail on a "terror" charge, but said that he would not spend any more time behind bars due to the time he had already spent in custody. More importantly, the court lifted Brunsonʼs house arrest and travel ban, allowing him to leave Turkey. The charge of espionage was dropped. The 50-year-old US national appeared before court in the western Turkish town of Aliaga on Friday, in the culmination of a widely publicized case that causeda diplomatic row between Washington and Ankara.

US cardinal resigns amid accusations of church sex abuse cover-up Cardinal Donald Wuerl became the most prominent leader in the US Catholic Church to resign amid an ongoing scandal concerning sexual abuse by clergyand a massive cover-up by church leaders. Pope Francisaccepted the Wuerlʼs request to step down from his post as the archbishop of Washington DC, the Vatican announced on Friday. As no replacement has yet been named, Wuerl will remain in his post in a temporary capacity until a new archbishop is found. He will reportedly retain his title as cardinal.

Facebook said Friday that hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach it disclosed two weeks ago. The exact number of accounts affected had not been previously known. The social media titan originally believed that50 million accounts could have been affected, but it didnʼt know if the data had been misused. The hackers accessed name, email addresses and phone numbers from those 29 million accounts and got even more data from 14 million of those, such as hometown, date of birth, the last 10 places they checked into or the 15 most recent searches. Facebook intends to notify people whose accounts were hacked. "We now know that fewer people were impacted than we originally thought," Guy Rosen, Facebookʼs vice president of product management, said in an online post. The social media titan disclosed a cyberattack at the end of September that exploited three distinct software flaws to steal digital keys the company uses to keep users logged in. Facebook said engineers discovered a breach on September 25 and had it fixed two days later. The network reset the 50 million accounts it thought had been affected, requiring users to sign back in using passwords. Third party apps and other Facebook-owned apps like Whatsapp and Instagram were unaffected, the company said. One of the accounts affected was that of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. At the time of the attack, Zuckerberg said

hackers would have had the ability to view private messages or post on someoneʼs account, but thereʼs no sign that they did. The breach was the latest embarrassment for Facebook, which acknowledged earlier this year thatup to 87 million users had their personal data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a political firm working for Donald Trump in 2016. The scandal forced Zuckerberg to face both United States CongressandEU Parliament. The network reset the 50 million accounts it thought had been affected, requiring users to sign back in using passwords. Third party apps and other Facebookowned apps like Whatsapp and Instagram were unaffected, the company said. One of the accounts affected was that of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. At the time of the attack, Zuckerberg said hackers would have had the ability to view private messages or post on someoneʼs account, but thereʼs no sign that they did. The breach was the latest embarrassment for Facebook, which acknowledged earlier this year thatup to 87 million users had their personal data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a political firm working for Donald Trump in 2016. The scandal forced Zuckerberg to face both United States CongressandEU Parliament. At the time of the attack, Zuckerberg said hackers would have had the ability to view private messages or post on someoneʼs account, but thereʼs no sign that they did.

Germany extends border controls with Austria and Denmark

Fire on German high-speed train forces evacuation

Germanyʼs Interior Ministry announced on Friday that it will extend migration controls at borders with Austria and Denmark, which were reintroduced in several parts of the normally passport-free Schengen area after the European migrant crisis of 2015. The extension is set to begin on November 12, one day after they were set to expire, and apply for six months. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer based the new measure on the argument that illegal secondary migration was still too high and that border protection of the European Unionʼs external borders was still lacking.

A high-speed train traveling from the western German city of Cologne to Munich in the south caught fire early on Friday, prompting a large-scale rescue operation, in which all 510 passengers escaped to safety. Two carriages from the Intercity-Express (ICE) train were engulfed by the flames, whose smoke was smelled by a policeman on the train who then activated the emergency brakes, according to the mass-circulation Bild daily. Five people were said by police to have been slightly injured, including one person with a hurt ankle joint.


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