Last year ended with a number of high profile data breaches, tech stocks taking a massive tumble and the start of what has been to date the longest government shutdown on record. Marriott International’s Starwood reservation system was hacked exposing the personal data of up to 500 million guests. Quora’s data breach exposed up to 100 million users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses, and more…Apple, Facebook and Google stocks took heavy hits in December 2018 as the global economy and privacy concerns took their toll, and investors worried about a looming bear market. And then came the government shutdown.