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breach

[breech] / britʃ /




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In an email, Karpelès told The Wall Street Journal he had learned about the breach from Revolut’s email early Saturday, and had taken “appropriate measures” to protect himself and his family.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The data breach disclosure follows separate cases involving inappropriate or potentially inappropriate access to the medical records of people involved in the attack.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Since the security breach, a hacker calling themselves “I Am Not A Villain” has released materials that Revolut handed over by mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Last year, he was given an unconditional pardon by US President Donald Trump over a breach of anti-money laundering laws at his crypto trading platform, BitMEX, to which he had pleaded guilty in 2022.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

As the blood reached the site of the breach, the water in it quickly evaporated from the airflow and low pressure, leaving a gunky residue behind.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

In the U.S., law-enforcement officials have tied Chinese actors to breaches involving hundreds of millions of records—a haul of intelligence even a bureaucracy as massive as China’s would struggle to sift.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Having checked with industry players, MS analysts see only a low probability of regulators severely punishing Australia-listed Tuas over its breaches of license conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

In a blog post on Saturday, Amodei expressed concern about the possibility of AI agents swarming together, going rogue and conducting major cybersecurity breaches that could have devastating implications.

From MarketWatch Sep. 12, 2026

Chelsea were fined £10.75m in March after being charged by the Premier League for historical breaches of competition rules.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Now silently the host of Rohan moved forward into the field of Gondor, pouring in slowly but steadily, like the rising tide through breaches in a dike that men have thought secure.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

While West Texas and Brent futures have both breached $100 and dominated this week’s newsflow, diesel is the energy that fuels shipping, trucking, agriculture, construction and mining.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

Oil prices slipped in early trading after Brent crude breached $100 a barrel, as escalating attacks in the Middle East threatened to dramatically prolong disruptions to energy flows.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

It entered the headlines in July, when some 700 autonomous agents built by OpenAI breached the platform after escaping an isolated test environment.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

That was the first time the yen breached the key 160 level since the historic Japan-U.S. intervention in the currency market.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

The water breached and dodged the Phoenician stones surrounding the island without any difficulty at all.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

U.S. diesel prices are soaring once again as the squeeze in the fuels market tightens, breaching $6 a gallon for the first time on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Blackwell was back in court in October 2025 after being fined for breaching her community service order.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Some routinely put on a show: NYC0318, a whale also seen by AFP on a recent outing, often charms whale watchers with sensational lunge-feeds, breaching the water and prompting shrieks of delight.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

Last month, Chelsea were fined £10m and given a suspended ban from registering new players for two transfer windows for breaching rules relating to payments to agents between 2009 and 2022.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Okay, this had never been spelt out exactly, but it was definitely, as I say, an understanding, and until the afternoon of the Daniel Deronda business, neither of us had come anywhere near breaching it.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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