{"id":58246,"date":"2017-11-03T12:17:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=58246"},"modified":"2017-11-03T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:17:32","slug":"your-weekly-it-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/your-weekly-it-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly IT Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Top 5 IT stories for the week of October 30th<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/31\/hilton-reaches-700000-settlement-over-data-breaches-in-2015.html\">Hilton settles for $700,000 after 2015 breach <\/a>&#8211; In 2015 Hilton suffered two security breaches.\u00a0 Combined these two breaches resulted in over 350,000 credit card numbers being stolen.\u00a0 Although, this may not even be the biggest issue.\u00a0 Hilton failed to notify the victims of the breach in a timely manner.\u00a0 It is because of the lack of proper security, as well as failure to notify 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