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.
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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