Sentences with phrase «of embarrassing emails»

It's a risky move for Obama given how Solyndra tarnished his energy brand with a series of embarrassing emails showing aides fretting over the political implications of the company's bankruptcy, as well as images of the FBI raiding its corporate headquarters.

In February, Amy Pascal, the longtime head of Sony Pictures Entertainment, lost her job as chairman of the movie studio after a hacking attack late last year, which the U.S. government blamed on North Korea, led to the disclosure of a series of embarrassing emails.

Not exact matches

Then came the cyber attack aimed at stopping the film's release, including the leak of several versions of unreleased films, confidential information, and embarrassing emails.

Among others, there's Sony Entertainment's embarrassing email dump to JP Morgan Chase and Target's loss of tens of millions of credit card account numbers.

Inspired by an amusing autocorrect moment on a listserv last week («hashtags» converted to «hostages,» in the context of a discussion of online activism around marriage equality and the Supreme Court) it's a serious question — all it takes is for someone to take a tweet, text or email that's been automatically «corrected» to a politically embarrassing state and make a big deal out of it.

The comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, portraying an assassination of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong - Un, was initially shelved by Sony after the computer hacking released thousands of sensitive and embarrassing emails.

The inquiry failed to find a smoking gun which would see Mr Hunt ejected from his job, but the various emails, texts and phone calls proved highly embarrassing to the media secretary, who cut a hesitant and nervous figure for the duration of the session.

In the first televised debate of the party's primary race for the White House, Sanders had the chance to further embarrass front - runner Hillary Clinton over the private email server she used as U.S. secretary of state.

And he recalled the ugliness that attended the resignation of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman - Schultz as DNC chair earlier this year, after Wikileaks» release of embarrassing internal emails hacked by Russian government agents.

A security expert believes the DNC's data breach, which released an embarrassing trove of emails as well as personal donor information, could become much larger.

«Across the country, Democrats and the liberal Left are looking to win Special Elections, hoping to show that the conservative movement can be defeated — and embarrass President Trump,» wrote Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in a fundraising email on behalf of Gianforte.

Also unhelpful are claims that the Labour leader could in future be embarrassed by emails he exchanged with a friend of McBride's, Derek Draper.

Spitzer, of course, saw that blow up in his face as governor when damning and embarrassing emails he and his top aides sent during a state police records scandal that engulfed his brief administration surfaced during several investigations.

The disclosure of personal emails can be embarrassing.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

They also offer the option to «broadcast,» which means you get to send a fucking embarrassing email to everyone fitting your criteria at the same time so all of them can laugh at you.

If you are like me, you spend an embarrassing amount of time on Gchat, the messenger embedded within Googles widely popular email.

Completely free up to 10 emails sent per day This is one of those questions you always feel embarrassed about asking.

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But he's already cozying up to the big green donors — George Soros has chipped in and Schneiderman had an embarrassing email revealed in which he sought contributions from Tom Steyer, the billionaire green activist who himself is considering a run for governor of California.

Even companies that are sticking with ALEC appear to be embarrassed by the association: Duke Energy has done all it can to not confirm renewed ALEC membership, ignoring repeated calls, emails and a 150,000 - strong public petition delivered by a diverse coalition of organizations whose members don't appreciate how ALEC's bad policies make Duke appear two - faced.

The series tracks the whole story and is bluntly critical in its analysis and treatment of some of the now - embarrassed climate scientists who featured the emails.

Deeply embarrassed by, first, the stolen emails that claim to reveal the suppression of research questioning global warming, and now by the revelation that the «scientific study» that «proved» that the Himalayan glaciers would melt away in 25 years was bunk — «Glaciergate» — the eco-movement is furiously deflecting.

But another reason for the Guardian's coyness is that the campaign which obtained the email exchange between the Science Museum and Shell wants to use the fact of sponsorship to embarrass the museum into dropping the sponsor.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

The emails in the larger scheme of things were pretty trivial (although damaging and embarrassing for those involved).

In an embarrassing display of scientific illiteracy and political gullibility, news organizations have repeatedly played into the deniers» hands: Implicitly endorsing their unfounded accusations of fraud against scientists whose emails were stolen, by portraying a single error in a thousand - page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report as reason to question all of mainstream climate science.

Bullying is nothing new, she says, but the internet has added a new wrinkle, ushering in cyberbullying — which includes sending mean or threatening emails or text messages, posting embarrassing photos of someone online, creating a website to make fun of others, pretending to be someone else by using their name, and tricking someone into revealing personal information and sending it to others.

«Extremely Embarrassing» The controversy began after a series of once - private emails from various IOTA team members and a group of external security researchers was leaked, putting on display the developers» apathy and arrogance towards a critical flaw in

The issue, Boyle explained, is broader than just malicious cyber actors hacking and publishing emails of political parties to embarrass and cause doubt; rather it extends to influencing the outcomes of elections.

Using an unprofessional personal email address is one of the most common and embarrassing mistakes you can make.

The bottom line is, there are probably multiple qualified candidates who interviewed for the position — and the hiring manager may very well make the final decision based on who didn't send an email full of embarrassing typos.

It usually happens more than once and can be in the form of abusive emails or texts, making fun of someone online, or posting embarrassing or damaging information or photos.