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Pearson's (NYSE:PSO) Financial Times reported Friday that several of its blogs and social media accounts were "compromised by hackers."The announcement, initially made through the U.K.-based business publication's Twitter account, was also confirmed by FOX Business through a Financial Times spokesperson."Today various FT Twitter accounts and one FT blog were compromised by backers," the company said in a statement. "We have now secured those accounts and are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."It wasn't immediately clear what type of attack the site was undergoing or whether personal subscriber information was compromised, however the Syrian Electronic Army is claiming responsibility and has posted FT emails and passwords on Twitter.An FT Twitter post earlier Friday morning boasted: "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here." The message contained a shortened link as well as the hashtag #SEA and linked to @Official_SEA12, the Syrian Electronic Army's twitter page. The group cla...
The premiers of Spain and Portugal Monday expressed support for a quick push to create a banking union in the euro zone, joining a chorus of other European Union lea...
French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said Monday that Europe can go a long way within existing treaties towards creating a single authority for winding down fail...
Aviva PLC (AV) is in advanced talks with housing provider A2Dominion that could result in the insurer taking control of thousands of homes in London and the southeas...
The Libor benchmark interest rate is likely to be replaced by a system that has survey-based lending rates running alongside transaction-linked indices as soon as ne...
Aviva PLC (AV) is in advanced talks with housing provider A2Dominion that could result in the insurer taking control of thousands of homes in London and the southeas...
Win Bischoff is stepping down as chairman of British state-backed Lloyds Banking Group , the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the pla...
British insurer Aviva Plc could buy thousands of homes in London and the southeast of England to use as rented properties in a deal with social housing provider A2Do...
Win Bischoff will step down as chairman of Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LYG, LLOY.LN) this year, the Financial Times reported.Mr. Bischoff will announce his decision ah...
Germany's finance minister has called for a "two-step approach" towards European banking union, writing that a limited "timber-framed" union, set up without changing...
A dual-track system, including survey-based lending rates along with transaction-linked indices, is likely to replace scandal-hit London interbank lending rate Libor...
Key energy companies, trade houses and banks alike have halted submission of European natural gas quotes to price-reporting agencies, reports the Financial Times Thu...
Calpers, the massive California pension plan, on Wednesday became the latest major voice to endorse a nonbinding proposal to strip J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) CEO J...
The former chief executive of BP PLC (BP), Tony Hayward, is to become the interim chairman of commodities trader Glencore Xstrata PLC (GLEN.LN), the Financial Times ...
Terry Farr, one of the brokers at the center of the world-wide investigation into alleged interest-rate rigging by banks has been fired, a person familiar with the m...
The chief executive of Argentina's state-run oil company YPF SA (YPFD.BA, YPF), Miguel Galuccio, is meeting Tuesday with Ali Moshiri, president of Latin America and ...
The head of the International Energy Agency on Tuesday urged the United States to decide quickly to allow crude exports, or the industry will find ways to get around...
More than 10,000 private messages sent by Bloomberg LP clients from their data terminals were leaked online during internal testing, the Financial Times reported. Th...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is conducting an inquiry into "exchanges of futures for swaps" transactions over the past two years, the Financial Times rep...
European Central Bank Executive Board member Joerg Asmussen said Monday that the European Union's mechanism for resolving struggling financial institutions should be...
