Australia’s Future Fund to Be Probed, Senator Says
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund will be investigated by the nation’s regulator over the sale of Telstra Corp. shares less than a month before a government threat to split the company, said Senator Steve Fielding. The Future Fund said it didn’t have access to private information.
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission will investigate whether the Future Fund was “tipped off” on the proposed separation of the country’s former phone monopoly, Fielding said in an e-mailed statement today.
The Future Fund, whose assets were worth A$64 billion ($59 billion) at Sept. 30, sold A$2.37 billion of Telstra shares on Aug. 20 under what it called a previously stated strategy of reducing its stake. On Sept. 15, the government said Telstra must separate its fixed-line assets from its consumer business or face curbs on mobile-services expansion.
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Japan-based Nomura Holdings is in talks with the China Investment Corporation (CIC) on forming a new investment fund. The fund could be receive commitments up to US$ 1 billion. [ Content protected for Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Standard subscribers only. Please subscribe to view content. ]
On October 22, 2018, Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, through its sovereign wealth enterprise (SWE) Ion Investments, entered into its second block deal in selling shares in Celltrion, a South Korean bio-pharmaceutical company. [ Content protected for Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Standard subscribers only. Please subscribe to view content. ]
In an unfortunate break for Facebook, the true nature of its data breach is more troubling than previously believed. The social media giant revealed that its headline-topping security breach, which affected 29 million accounts, compromised personal information and seemingly confidential contact information. The FBI is said to be investigating. In September 2018, the story broke that user content, email, and phone numbers, along with personal profile information, was swiped from the site. Facebook has admitted the problem, but stopped short of offering users an apology. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Irish Data Protection Commission have questioned Facebook on the matter.
Access Tokens
At the root of the breach were Facebook “access tokens.” These are digital keys that give sites access to keep users logged in and to recognize them upon entry. Unknown hackers reportedly stole these access tokens for 400,000 people. They then used “friends lists” to steal tokens from their networks. Facebook did not shy away from noting that unauthorized access “included username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches.” This is, clearly, a staggering amount of personal information and a black eye for the corporation.
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