Data Security

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Cybernews reports that nearly 1,000 employees from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the FBI had their personal information and emails exposed by The Com hacking collective following an extensive coordinated cyberattack that comes amid the U.S. government's mounting crackdown on immigration and protests.

U.S. peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper had information from more than 17.6 million individuals stolen following a data breach in early September, according to BleepingComputer.

Major global auction house Sotheby's has confirmed having its data compromised following a July cyberattack, The Register reports.

HackRead reports that Indian global email marketing and automation firm NetcoreCloud had over 40 billion records inadvertently exposed by a misconfigured database.

More than 40% of insider events cost companies $1 million or more.

CyberScoop reports that a Massachusetts man Matthew Lane has been given a four-year prison sentence after hacking the education software company PowerSchool, which exposed data from 70 million students and faculty members.