Infosecurity Magazine reports that Washington State K-12 school district Highline Public Schools has acknowledged having had sensitive information from its students and faculty members stolen following a ransomware attack in September that resulted in the forced three-day closure of its campuses.
Officials at Texas' City of Lubbock have confirmed that data from 12,503 individuals have been compromised following a cyberattack against its utility payment website, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Oracle was reported by Bloomberg to have admitted the theft of some customers' old credentials as a result of the compromise of an environment deprecated eight years ago following prior categorical denial of any breach after threat actor "rose87168" recently claimed stealing six million data records from Oracle Cloud's federated single sign-on servers, according to BleepingComputer.
UK postal service Royal Mail was purported to have been compromised in a cyberattack on Mar. 31, which was claimed to have resulted in the exfiltration of 144 GB of data from its systems, according to Cybernews.
SecurityWeek reports that Wisconsin-based home appliance and ammunition manufacturer National Presto Industries was admitted to have been breached by the InterLock ransomware operation in an attack last month.
Cybernews reports that recent data breaches have impacted 65% of the largest hospitals and health systems across the U.S. just as the total number of compromised health records exceeded 276 million, or more than 80% of the country's population, last year, which is the highest on record.
Tennessee-based Chord Specialty Dental Partners had data from more than 173,000 individuals confirmed to have been compromised following a data breach identified in September, according to SecurityWeek.
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