Lufthansa says some frequent flyer accounts hacked

Lufthansa said hackers had managed to break into the accounts of some of its frequent flyers and use their miles to make purchases, just two weeks after British Airways suffered a similar attack. The hackers used lists to try to match usernames and passwords – when one matched, they made purchases using the miles on the frequent flyer’s account.

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China to punish Internet firm Sina over series of complaints

China will punish web portal and social media firm Sina Corp after it was identified as operating the most complained about major website in the country, the Internet regulator said on Friday, the latest blow in an ongoing online crackdown. Representatives from Sina, which also operates China's most popular microblog Weibo Corp, discussed “the issues of breaking the law and the recent large quantity of Internet user complaints” with officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and its Beijing branch, the regulator said in a statement on its website. Since President Xi Jinping came to power in early 2013, he has overseen a broad campaign to bring China's Internet under the government's control

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