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Sources within the U.S. security services , quoted by Bloomberg , argue that cyber attacks that targeted Apple , Facebook and Twitter have been organized by a group of hackers in Eastern Europe . According to sources quoted , hackers would have sought information about research projects, data subject rights and other intellectual property that can be sold on the black market. Apple confirmed that some of its employees have been targeted by a cyber attack . Similar attacks were focused on the social network Facebook . Both companies said that the attacks did not compromise essential data . At the beginning of last month, and microblogging platform Twitter has announced that it has been attacked by hackers compromised the accounts of about 250,000 users.

Facebook has been in the news leading to the $16 billion blockbuster IPO. However the bigger news the next day was the wedding of Zuckerberg and Chan. The perception created by the timing of the wedding was that the internet billionaire was waiting for the social network’s flotation.   A guest authorized to speak for the couple tried to dispel this perception by saying that Zuckerberg was waiting for Chan’s medical school graduation. The wedding had been planned months ahead of the D day. They were simply waiting for Chan to finish her medical school.  The IPO was totally commercially driven and all decisions relating to its size and date were taken based on commercial criteria and was not influenced by the date of the wedding. Zuckerberg turned 28 on the Monday before the IPO. That day he was attending Chan’s UCSF School of Medicine commencement ceremony, and the date of the ceremony was intentionally fixed to coincide with Zuckerberg’s birth day. Zuckerb...