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Tidal is investigating data breach that led to accusation of inflated streaming numbers

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  1. Tidal is investigating data breach that led to accusation of inflated streaming numbers  The Verge

  2. Streaming Service Tidal May Be Dealing With A Data Breach  Forbes
  3. Tidal investigates data breach, denies report it faked streams  CNET
  4. Tidal Investigating ‘Potential Data Breach’ After Reports of Inflated Subscriber and Streaming Numbers  Variety

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Malware campaign inflated views of pro-Russia videos

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A botnet designed for Web advertising fraud was also used to nudge up the number of views of some pro-Russian videos on the website DailyMotion, according to security vendor Trustwave.

An investigation into what appeared to be strictly ad fraud turned out to have a surprising political angle, wrote Rami Kogan of Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, in a blog post on Thursday.

“We can’t know for sure who’s behind the fraudulent promotion of video clips, but it appears to be politically motivated,” he wrote.

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