Breach

CyberScoop reports that federal IT contractor CGI Federal revealed that the breach of its systems that resulted in the compromise of data from nearly 6,600 current and former employees at the Government and Accountability Office stemmed from the exploitation of a vulnerability affecting some Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server versions.

Security pros say more companies will report early in 8-K filings even if there’s no “material impact.”

Telecommunications firms across the U.S. will be required to inform the Federal Communications Commission, the FBI, and the U.S. Secret Service regarding data breaches within seven days of identifying compromise under the finalized data breach reporting rule issued by the FCC, according to The Register.

Third-party vendor IMS told BoA last fall that data from “deferred compensation plans" may have been compromised.

In letter to customers, firm said it has no intention of paying a ransom.

More than 33 million individuals across France, or almost half of the country's population, were confirmed by the country's data protection authority CNIL to have had their data compromised following data breaches at French healthcare and insurance services providers Viamedis and Almerys last month, according to BleepingComputer.