Giving the team the benefit of the doubt, it probably was meant to be a joke. But in a world where most people have awful password hygiene, it falls flat. As TNW points out, "Nutella" is among one of the more common password cracks listed on Have I Been Pwned.

The businesses issued a statement on Wednesday, saying they had started bankruptcy proceedings, blaming a "siege of media coverage" related to the Facebook data-harvesting scandal for the decision.

Alexander Nix, the ex-chief of Cambridge Analytica, and Julian Wheatland were listed as directors of Emerdata but also as directors of some of the wider SCL Group of companies.

TSB's IT fiasco is heading for a fifth day, with angry customers still locked out of their accounts and unable to make payments.

It promised that systems would be back up and running by 6pm on Sunday but many of those who did get access to their online accounts were presented with details of other people's accounts too.

Nicky Morgan MP, chair of the Treasury Committee, weighed into the crisis on Tuesday by writing to TSB boss Paul Pester to find out what has gone wrong, the extent of the failure, and how the bank intends to compensate customers who have suffered a breach of potentially highly-sensitive personal data.

While Apple CEO Tim Cook commented in a recent interview that he would never allow his company to get itself in the heinous situation in which Facebook finds itself, because, one inferred, it was a more moral company.

Google came second with 15 percent. Apple's 11 percent put it third. Oddly, Uber scored higher than Netflix, Twitter, Snap and, oh, Lyft.

The IRS has more than 60 different IT systems for managing the cases of individual taxpayers, according to a report submitted to Congress by an internal IRS watchdog. Many of them have not been updated in decades, and two of them are nearly six decades old — the oldest anywhere in the entire federal government, the report said.

“The IRS is crashing?” he said, repeating a reporter’s question. “It sounds horrible. It sounds really bad. Hope it gets fixed.”

The proposal, titled Sounding Like a Broken Record: Principled Copyright Recommendations from the Music Industry, calls for radical changes that would spark significant new consumer fees and internet regulation. The plan features new levies on smartphones and tablets, internet service provider tracking of subscribers and content blocking, longer copyright terms, and even the industry’s ability to cancel commercial agreements with internet companies if the benefits from the deal become “disproportionate.”

"We've seen a bunch of router attack throughout the years. A very good example is SYNful Knock, a malicious implant for Cisco [routers] that was discovered by FireEye but also threat actors such as Regin and CloudAtlas. Both APTs have been known to have and own proprietary router implants."

Currently, Kaspersky classifies routers as a "growing areas of risk" for APT operations, next to the recent wave of newly-disclosed CPU vulnerabilities, such as Meltdown, Spectre, Chimera, RyzenFall, Fallout, and MasterKey, which fellow Kaspersky researcher Vicente Diaz sees as a threat as threat actors will learn to weaponize for attacks.

A Facebook spokesperson said the company received the invite, but declined to discuss whether Zuckerberg would attend. Spokespeople for Grassley's office and the Judiciary committee didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Zuckerberg, meanwhile, shifted from days of deafening silence last week to a full-on media blitz, complete with interviews with national and industry publications, television appearances and full-page newspaper ads.

The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant’s biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.

The discovery of the unprecedented data harvesting, and the use to which it was put, raises urgent new questions about Facebook’s role in targeting voters in the US presidential election.

Russia has been condemned at the UN security council for the Salisbury nerve agent attack, with allies lining up to back Britain’s assessment that Moscow bears responsibility.

Nikki Haley, striking a contrast to her strangely equivocal president, told the UN security council: “The United States believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the United Kingdom using a military-grade nerve agent … The credibility of this council will not survive if we fail to hold Russia accountable.”