Breach

Executives’ exposed data fuels AI-driven phishing, costing Fortune 500 firms millions in preventable breaches.

BleepingComputer reports that major automotive manufacturing firm Stellantis, formed after the merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the PSA Group, had information from some of its North American customers compromised following a third-party hack claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion group.

Here’s three lessons from all the brand attacks over the summer.

Brute-force attack aimed to access preference files stored in backup for future use by bad actors.

Major South Korean credit card provider Lotte Card had data from 2.97 million users, or nearly a third of its subscribers, compromised following a cyberattack, The Korea Herald reports.

Infosecurity Magazine reports that almost 194,000 individuals were confirmed by New York Blood Center, a major U.S. independent blood bank, to have had their data stolen following a breach of its internal systems in January.

More than 850,000 individuals have been impacted by separate data breaches in three healthcare providers across the U.S., The Register reports.