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Hotel chain Marriott International has confirmed experiencing its second data breach this year after DataBreaches.net reported that 20GB of data including personally identifiable information and credit card details was claimed to have been stolen by an unnamed hacking group from a BWI Airport Marriott employee, according to SiliconAngle.

Finance Company Inc. (PFC), an accounts receivable management company that supports various organizations, disclosed it would notify customers whose information may have been involved in a breach earlier this year.

Reuters reports that one billion Chinese citizens had their personal information allegedly stolen from Shanghai police by a hacker dubbed "ChinaDan," which could be one of the largest data breaches ever if true. ChinaDan has been found selling more than 23 TB of stolen data for 10 bitcoin, or nearly $200,000, on Breach Forums last week. "In 2022, the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was leaked.

At least nine states and Washington, D.C., had their unemployment claims and job placement sites disrupted by a cyberattack against vendor Geographic Solutions, according to NBC News.

Major bug bounty platform HackerOne announced that it has identified and terminated an employee who stole and disclosed vulnerability information outside the platform to gain additional bounties, according to The Hacker News.

According to Moody’s, a bond credit ratings business that now regularly tracks the economic fallout from cyberattacks, the news headlines and surface damage done to Costa Rican IT infrastructure has overshadowed a more complex picture.

The California Department of Justice has disclosed that individuals who applied for a concealed-and-carry weapons permit from 2011 to 2021 had their personal data leaked following the overhaul of the state's Firearms Dashboard Portal, The Register reports.