Major South Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom was reported to have taken legal action to rescind the record $91 million penalty imposed by the Personal Information Protection Commission following an April cyberattack that compromised all its 23 million users, according to Yonhap News Agency.
New York-based Monroe University has confirmed that more than 320,000 people had their information compromised following a December 2024 cyberattack, Cybernews reports.
Sources suggest the ShinyHunters cybercrime group is behind the extortion, demanding a Bitcoin payment to prevent the release of older Salesforce data from a February 2025 breach and newer Zendesk data stolen in the recent incident.
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South Korean conglomerate Kyowon Group was estimated by a government investigation team to have had nearly 9.6 million accounts compromised following a suspected ransomware intrusion over the weekend, reports Yonhap News Agency.
SecurityWeek reports that JPMorgan Chase has announced that information from 659 private equity fund investors had been stolen following a breach at law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.
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