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https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/broadband-provider-whizcomms-server-breached-by-third-party-customers-information-stolen UPDATED 9 MINS AGO SINGAPORE – Broadband service provider WhizComms notified customers on Wednesday that its Web server had been breached, resulting in a third party stealing their personal information. In an e-mail seen by The Straits Times, the firm said that the data breach affected some customers only, with those affected receiving it. The third party who accessed the firm’s Web server had downloaded scanned images of customers’ personal information, including their NRICs, work permits and tenancy agreements. There was no indication that contact and payment information had been stolen, although the e-mail warned affected customers to look out for any suspicious activities that used their identities. “With scam calls and fraudulent activities already on the rise, we recommend that you continue to be vigilant, especially for any potential signs of identity fraud,” the e-mail added. WhizComms markets itself as having the cheapest 1 Gbps (gigabit per second) plan, which it offers at $32.40 per month for a 24-month contract. Its broadband service is powered by Singtel. It did not disclose the number of people affected, nor did it say when it first detected the breach. It said that the unauthorised access had already been contained, and it is working with the police, the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority. It added that it was strengthening its safeguards to prevent a reoccurrence of such incidents. The Straits Times has contacted WhizComms for more information. Meanwhile, a PDPC spokesman said the commission has been notified of the incident and is investigating.

Hi bros, I'm planning to buy a plate number from a third party dealer for my new car. 1) Usually is the price stated on the web negotiable ? if yes, the discount is in the region of ? 2) If my new car is only coming in sometime in September/October 2015, can i hold the plate number for that long? 3) Any other things that i have to take note of ? Thanks.

I Will Sleep With Your Boyfriend And This Is How It Will Happen I will meet him somewhere neutral: a coffee shop, a bar, a bookstore. I will be cute, but in the way that you never are. With a light sundress that grazes the mid-thigh and a smile that says, “It’s okay, you can talk to me, I don’t bite.” Lately, you have been stressed with work and errands and family problems — you have forgotten that layer of sex appeal that you used to lacquer on before your dates together, the way it used to glimmer in the light and catch his attention from across the room. He is not a bad person, and neither are you. Times are just difficult and everything loses its shine after a while. The first time he will touch me, his hands will burn because they are still used to the temperature of your body. When he talks to me in the coffee shop, or the bar, or the bookstore, he will have forgotten how to talk to girls. What once used to come naturally to him, a language he felt he had created himself, will now be stilted and uncomfortable. Everything, he thinks, is going to be a giveaway that he already has a girlfriend and that he shouldn’t be doing this. I already know, of course, but that’s part of why I want him. That’s most of why I want him. He will edge around what he really wants to say, and I will brush my hand against his forearm and he will remember that it wasn’t words at all. When we go back to my apartment, everything will look different to him, and different has replaced actual sex appeal as the most attractive thing in his world. In my apartment, there are no problems. There are no fights. There is no going to bed in some ugly tee shirt and forgetting to touch one another because you have better things to do, such as play around on your phone. Everything in my apartment will be for pleasure and for now. There won’t be any more complicated subtext. My friends ask me why I always go for men who are in relationships. I tell them that I don’t know, but that there is something about all the sneaking around they have to do which makes me feel special and rare. I know that it means I am a secret that they need to keep hidden, but the more childish part of me still thinks that secrets are special. I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I know that it can never work, and I don’t really want it to. As soon as our f**king becomes like the sporadic encounters he has with you, as soon as it carries with it even the slightest note of drudgery or repetition or obligation, he will leave. He will make up a reason and go back to you, a cleansed man who will probably find someone new to replace the monotony with. He thinks that I thought he would leave you, but I knew he wouldn’t. They never do. You are his mother, in many ways, and will one day be the mother of his children. I am a placeholder in the shape of a vagina. Madonna and whore. You think that he cheated on you because you weren’t hot enough. That’s not true. He cheated because he was the kind of man who cheats, and I sought him out because I like men like that. They thrill me even in the predictability of their deception. You let your love run cold, yes, but only in the way that humans do. A more decent man would have stayed with you through the tougher times, stayed honest, and worked with you on building something that can create sexiness in its stability. He would have found you both comfortable and exciting, because he would be capable of seeing more than one facet of your humanity. You would be better off without him. I will sleep with him by reminding him of everything he can no longer have with you, and I will lose him by showing him that, after the warmth of the first couple of f**ks dies down, I am just like you are. I am just another partner who gets colds and looks messy in the morning and snores after drinking and argues with her mother over the phone. I will sleep with him as a pixie, and I will lose him as a human. Source: http://thoughtcatalog.com/anonymous/2013/10/i-will-sleep-with-your-boyfriend-and-this-is-how-it-will-happen/#cOpf5AqHVsIQvPRC.01 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Came across this article and found it interesting. Provoking words to many, thought provoking to me, but beautifully written by the author at the same time. I can't fathom how a girl would want to be the third party in a relationship, nobody in the right frame of mind would want to be. One cannot prevent yourself from falling in love (even with a attached/married man), but to deliberately want to pursue a attached/married man, that is something. Is this solely the fault of the woman? If the men in question were faithful enough, would she get her chance to exploit him? Who is the real cheater here? The man who cheats on his girlfriend/wife with another woman? Or the woman who uses her sexual appeal to hook the attached man? Just some food for thought, and I'm sure a common phenomenon in today's world.