Breach

Government Technology reports that data breaches reached 3,322 last year, which is the highest on record, but details regarding the security incidents have been lacking in 70% of breach notices.

Texas-based financial services provider Marquis Software Solutions has attributed the August ransomware attack against its systems that impacted numerous banks and credit unions across the U.S. to a security breach at its firewall provider SonicWall, which came to light a month later, TechCrunch reports.

BleepingComputer reports that audio streaming platform SoundCloud had 29.8 million accounts, or almost a fifth of all its users, affected by a December cyberattack, which was admitted by the ShinyHunters hacking operation.

More than 30 million accounts with names, emails, and other personal details were noted by South Korean police to have been impacted by the December breach at the leading South Korean e-commerce firm Coupang, which had downplayed the incident to have only affected 3,000 accounts following an internal investigation that showed its former employee to have discarded data from most of the accounts that had been accessed, reports Korea JoongAng Daily.

Under Armour had 72 million email addresses stolen by the Everest ransomware gang in a November attack published to the Have I Been Pwned website earlier this week, according to TechRepublic.

Altimeter Capital Management and Greenoaks Capital Partners, U.S.-based investors of major South Korean e-commerce firm Coupang, have informed the South Korean government of their plan to file arbitration claims and requested a U.S. investigation into what they called "discriminatory" actions against the company, according to The Korea Herald.

The Civil Service Employees Association, a major labor union for state and local government workers in New York, had information from more than 47,000 members stolen following a May data breach, Cybernews reports.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has confirmed that almost 304,000 individuals had their demographic information pilfered following a data breach in late August, according to StateScoop.