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A phishing campaign targeting Boots customers has exposed just how sophisticated retail impersonation scams have become. Romanian hackers sent nearly nine million fraudulent emails mimicking the pharmacy chain, using compromised systems and fake surveys to harvest credit card details and personal data from unsuspecting shoppers.
Shifting from security to economics, a Meta data center is doing something unexpected for a small American community — funding fifty thousand dollar bonuses for local teachers. The arrangement illustrates how the infrastructure buildout behind artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping public finances in towns that host these massive facilities, raising real questions about who benefits and how.
And in crypto markets, Bitcoin and Ether both declined after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady but struck a notably hawkish tone. Chair Kevin Warsh's first meeting signaled the Fed is more concerned about inflation than slowing growth, a posture that historically weighs on risk assets and sent digital currencies lower even as traditional stocks got a lift from a signed Iran trade deal.
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