GMO to Hold Press Conference After FX Account Hacking
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GMO is a company in Japan. It will have a press conference on November 2.
The company president will go to the press conference. He will talk to reporters.
There was a problem with FX accounts. FX means buying and selling money from other countries.
Someone made unauthorized trades in these accounts. This means they traded money without permission.
The bad access came from a VPS. VPS means a computer server outside the company.
Hackers used this outside server to get in. Now people want to know how this happened.
People also want to know how investors can stay safe. Investors are people who put money into FX accounts.
There is also news about a TV company called TBS. TBS posted something on social media about the hacker.
TBS forgot to hide the hacker's face. This is called a mosaic mistake.
People online got angry about this mistake. This is called online backlash.
Vocabulary15 words
- press conference
- a meeting where someone talks to news reporters
- FX
- buying and selling foreign money
- unauthorized
- done without permission
- VPS
- a computer that works like a private server outside a company
- mosaic
- a blur used to hide a face in a picture
- online backlash
- many angry comments on the internet
- hacker
- someone who breaks into computers
- investor
- a person who puts money into something to make more money
- social media
- websites like Twitter where people share posts
- company
- a business that sells things or services
- president
- the top leader of a company
- access
- the way to enter or use something
- account
- a place where you keep your money online
- problem
- something that is wrong
- mistake
- something done wrong
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Answer key
1. November 2 2. An outside computer server 3. It forgot to blur the hacker's face
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GMO is a company in Japan. It will have a _____ on November 2.
The company _____ will go to the press conference.
There was a problem with _____ accounts.
Someone made _____ trades in these accounts.
The bad access came from a _____.
Hackers used this outside server to get in.
People also want to know how _____ can stay safe.
TBS posted something on social media about the _____.
TBS forgot to hide the hacker's face. This is called a _____ mistake.
People online got angry about this mistake. This is called online _____.
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