Kim Kardashian and the World's Wealthiest

These days, we're seeing lots of female celebrities with very established audiences going to places like OnlyFans, but on the other end, you have Kim Kardashian who (granted), became the big name that she was largely because of THAT sextape with Brandy's little brother, Ray J.

Regardless, you could argue more impressively, she was able to launch a career from that to the point where she's making very current headlines for becoming an official billionaire.

Forbes recently reported that her stake in KKW Beauty is around $500 million.

Not to mention her ownership in Skims being valued at $225 million.

You know, you're more than free to say whatever you want about her, but I truly think it is genuinely impressive that she has had not only the staying power, but the ability to grow and thrive.

I figured I'd share this story because I know so many of you—as a cultishly collective group—have been religiously rooting for her.

According to Forbes, while it is still rare for a person to be a billionaire, she is far from the only one.

Forbes reported on their 35th annual list of the world's wealthiest, that there are now 2,755 billionaires—which is a crazy jump of 660 billionaires in just a year!

They also found that this list—together—is worth $13.1 trillion, an increase of $5.1 trillion from last year's list.

Collectively (and currently), 86% of all billionaires are richer than they were a year ago.

The biggest earner turned out to be none other than Elon Musk, who went from a (seemingly) embarrassing $24.6 billion to his now $151 billion fortune!

That puts Mr. Musk at number 2, right behind Jeff Bezos, who is reportedly worth an astronomical $177 billion—which (I think) is super impressive, because this is how much he's worth after he got divorced!

His ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, is the 22nd richest person in the world, by the way.

Depending on who you are, you might find this interesting, aspirational, infuriating, all of the above? I'm just most inclined to know your thoughts.

Facebook's Drastic Data Leak… Again!

News just broke (out) that the information for over half a billion Facebook users has been leaked online.

As far as what the information includes, it's things like phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, email addresses.

As far as how widespread this thing is, users in 106 countries are reportedly affected—including the United States with 32 million users, the UK with 11 million and India with 6 million.

The leaked data set is reportedly from 2019, but it's still very much a problem despite being a couple of years old now.

Personally, my major concern is that cyber criminals can actually access these information to impersonate other people, or even scam them into handing over their login credentials.

In fact, the leaked data was first discovered back in January when a user in a low-level hacking forum offered to sell the info as part of an automated bot.

Although, what ended up happening, is that someone else leaked the information for free.

So, if you'd like to see if you've been affected by this leak, there are a couple of ways to do so.

For example, there's this web security consultant, Troy Hunt, uploading affected email addresses to haveibeenpwned.com.

Here's a link to the site.

It also sends uploaded affected phone numbers.

And while there are other sites that are offering these kinds of services, they're less well-known. So, for that reason, I'm not going to be linking to those.