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Claims that a leak of the user data of 533 million Facebook users has just taken place is a bit of a stretch. A major part of this data has been out on the Web for a long time.

The hotel group Marriott International has been told by the UK Information Commissioner's Office that it will be fined a little over £99 million (A$178 million) over a data breach that occurred in December last year.

British Airways faces a fine of £183.39 million (A$329.1 million) for infringements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation which occurred during a data breach in September 2018, the UK Information Commissioner's Office says.

Australian tech firm Crowdcomms has confessed that an app it built for the British Conservative Party allowed access to profiles of politicians attending the party's annual conference in Birmingham.

Created to "end the war on data", Beam says it uses blockchain to facilitate the exchange of data for value between retail customers and stakeholders, and has just announced its ICO.

A former ASIC chairman has predicted a grim future for bitcoin unless the original cryptocurrency changes the way it operates.

China is set to block all websites, local and foreign, connected with trading in cryptocurrencies or initial coin offerings, a newspaper affiliated to the People's Bank of China says.

Token-based blockchain voting and decision-making platform, Horizon State, has raised more than $1.4 million in its crowdfunding campaign in just two weeks.

Horizon State, an Australian blockchain-based start-up that is looking to build a secure digital voting system, has launched the country's second initial coin offering.

Business intelligence and analytics software vendor Yellowfin has appointed Martyn Reeves as vice-president of strategy and corporate development, and Adam Chicktong as APAC sales director.

The raging controversy over whether Facebook behaved unethically when it conducted a secret psychological experiment on its users is continuing, with a UK regulator now investigating.