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I suffered a sudden cardiac arrest whilst on holiday in the US last year. When I went to make a claim on my travel insurance, it was declined.

The Scots actor James Finlayson, who inspired Homer Simpson's famous 'D'oh!' exclamation, has been memorialised at the theatre where he first tread the boards.

Discussing the importance of relationships with Lizzie Cundy and Mike Parry on Loving and Living on Wednesday the broadcaster, 63, reflected on being 'scared' to leave the wrong people.

Elon Musk 's transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson, blasted her parents decision to have children via in vitro fertilization.

Sudiksha Konanki, 20, disappeared from a five-star resort in Punta Cana on Thursday while on Spring Break from the University of Pittsburgh.

Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened next

Nick Lawler, general manager of the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), was at home one Friday when he got a call from the FBI alerting him that the public power utility's network had been compromised. The digital intruders turned out to be Volt Typhoon.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: New York State has sued Allstate Insurance for operating websites so badly designed they would deliver personal information in plain-text to anyone that went looking for it. The data was lifted from Allstate's National General business unit, which ran a website for consumers who wanted to get a quote for a policy. That task required users to input a name and address, and once that info was entered, the site searched a LexisNexis Risk Solutions database for data on anyone who lived at the address provided. The results of that search would then appear on a screen that included the driver's license number (DLN) for the given name and address, plus "names of any other drivers identified as potentially living at that consumer's address, and the entire DLNs of those other drivers." Naturally, miscreants used the system to mine for people's personal information for fraud. "National General intentionally built these tools to automatically populate consumers' entire DLNs in plain text -- in other words, fully exposed on the face of the quoting websites -- during the quoting process," the court documents [PDF] state. "Not surprisingly, attackers identified this vulnerability and targeted these quoting tools as an easy way to access the DLNs of many New Yorkers," according to the lawsuit. The digital thieves then used this information to "submit fraudulent claims for pandemic and unemployment benefits," we're told. ... [B]y the time the insurer resolved the mess, crooks had built bots that harvested at least 12,000 individuals' driver's license numbers from the quote-generating site.

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An official opening date for the store has yet to be announced

Sculptor and writer Clare Sheridan had a whirlwind romance with Soviet diplomat Lev Kamenev who she met in London in the summer of 1920.

A bride-to-be, from the U.S., recently took to Reddit, where she revealed she called off her wedding after discovering her fiancé had made a 'red flag' decision to buy a house with his mother.

Racegoers at Cheltenham got into a festive mood as they partied up a storm on Day One of the celebrated event.

Controversial porn star Lily Phillips, from Derbyshire, has been called out for 'faking' her latest nursing home sex stunt, after people spotted one familiar face in her videos.

The plans aim to change how people view the areas - and turn them into a holiday destination

Glasgow-based Liyana Svenningsen, now-seven months, was born with such a thick head of hair that people would stop her mother, Hadjer Harizi, in the street to ask if the little girl was wearing a wig.

The grandiose-looking two-bedroom house in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, has been shared on the market by property website Rightmove.

It appears that Vodafone is experiencing an outage this morning, leaving thousands unable to access the internet on their smartphones.

Adrian Lloyd-Penny said that he was going to drop night manager Lyndon Tyler and dispatcher Dave Boddison 'from a third storey b****y window' during a heated phone call.

The massive missile and drone attacks cast doubt on Vladimir Putin's willingness to accept Donald Trump's demands for peace in the three year war.

In the UK, thousands of men over 40 are addicted to pornography, and it's clear to me as a sex and relationship therapist that this addiction is destroying sex lives and marriages.

The pair's marriage has been thrown into turmoil after the McFly star was filmed kissing the Love Island beauty at the BRIT Awards earlier this month.