Breach

Massachusetts' Executive Office of Health and Human Services has disclosed that UMass Chan Medical School was impacted by the widespread breach of the MOVEit Transfer application, compromising data from more than 134,000 individuals who are part of or previously enrolled in some state programs, according to CBS News Boston.

Officials at Prince George's County Public Schools, which is the second-largest school district in Maryland, have confirmed that its system has been compromised by a cyberattack, impacting 4,500 of 180,000 accounts after initially disclosing a "broad network outage," reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Operations at third-party custom service Discord.io have been temporarily halted following the exposure of a database containing 760,000 members' data on the revived Breached hacking forum, reports BleepingComputer.

U.S. global consumer and professional products manufacturer Clorox had some of its operations disrupted after it took down certain IT systems due to "unauthorized" network activity, according to BNN Bloomberg.

Northern Ireland police breach compromises entire force CNN reports that the Police Service of Northern Island had the names and ranks of their entire force consisting of 10,000 police officers compromised following a data breach, which stemmed from improper data sharing following a Freedom of Information request that sought to know the police force's population.

Leveraging the digital identity of a user, organization or vendor has become a key feature of most malicious hacking campaigns performed today, present in 62% of all “hands on keyboard” intrusions observed over the last year, according to CrowdStrike.

BleepingComputer reports that the Colorado Department of Higher Education has been impacted by a significant data breach following a ransomware attack in June.