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Crypto firm Wintermute hit by $160 million theft

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Hackers have stolen around $160 million worth of cryptocurrency from crypto market maker Wintermute, the company said Tuesday. The incident marks the latest in a growing list of large crypto thefts this year. The hack is said to have targeted Wintermute’s decentralized finance (DeFi) operations, according to a series of

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‘Astonishing.’ Morgan Stanley hard drives holding sensitive client data got auctioned off online

By Matt Egan, CNN Business Federal regulators accused Morgan Stanley on Tuesday of “astonishing” failures that led to the mishandling of sensitive data on some 15 million customers. Morgan Stanley was slapped with a $35 million fine from the Securities and Exchange Commission for extensive failures to safeguard personal identifying information on its clients. Since

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Opinion: The world is moving backward in the combat against poverty and disease. Here’s what we need to do

Opinion by Mark Suzman for CNN Business Perspectives The first two decades of the 21st century provided more progress for more people than perhaps any other period in human history. Deaths from malaria, HIV and tuberculosis were cut in half. Child deaths fell dramatically. Polio was nearly eradicated. And the global poverty rate fell by

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Tax fossil fuel companies ‘feasting’ on profits as ‘planet burns’ and power bills soar, UN chief urges

By Angela Dewan, CNN Business Rich economies should hit oil and gas companies with new windfall taxes to provide help for countries suffering from climate change, and people struggling with soaring energy and food bills, UN Secretary General António Guterres said Tuesday. The UN chief accused energy giants of “feasting on hundreds of billions of

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Biden administration picks former Chicago, DC transportation leader to head EV charging program

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Gabe Klein, who has led transportation departments in Washington, DC and Chicago, will head the Biden administration’s $7.5 billion program to build out the country’s electric vehicle charging network. Klein will serve as executive director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which was established by the bipartisan infrastructure

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