Breach

More than 2 million individuals had their data compromised as a result of separate breaches at leading U.S. life insurance firm Allianz Life and dealer management software provider Motility, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

The Canadian airline began notifying customers impacted by the June incident this week.

Global boutique consulting firm Credera was claimed to have been compromised in a cyberattack that exposed documents involving its high-profile clients, including AT&T, Mercedes-Benz, AstraZeneca, and Southwest Airlines, Cybernews reports.

HackRead reports that Texas-based computer security service RemoteCOM, which serves pretrial, probation, and parole clients across the U.S., had data from more than 20,000 individuals compromised following the breach of its proprietary SCOUT surveillance platform.

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U.S. multinational media and telecommunications conglomerate Comcast Corporation had 834.4 GB of data purportedly stolen by the Medusa ransomware operation from its systems, according to HackRead.