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Days after a breach at T-Mobile exposed about 53 million people’s personal information, a hacking group known as ShinyHunters announced that it was auctioning 70 million sets of sensitive data purportedly stolen from AT&T.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2021

That image that Beeple was auctioning off at Christie’s ended up selling for $69 million, which, by the way, is $15 million more than Monet’s painting Nymphéas sold for in 2014.

From The Verge • Aug. 18, 2021

When her agent was auctioning her manuscript for “Women’s Work,” the price climbing into the stratosphere, she was preoccupied with the campaigns for Playtex and Aquafresh in her day job.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2018

Then the company he works for was auctioning off an ambulance.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2017

They sat in to their little rubber, and while they played a passenger of importance was auctioning off the pool on the ship's run for the next day.

From Sonnie-Boy's People by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)