Data Security

Officials at Baltimore's Arundel County have disclosed that data belonging to patients served by its Health Department may have been stolen following a ransomware attack earlier this year, CBS Baltimore reports.

International far-right media outlet The Epoch Times was reported by SafetyDetectives cybersecurity experts to have a database of 32 million records allegedly stolen from its systems leaked online, according to Cybernews.

Cybernews reports that major video game distribution service Steam was noted by its owner Valve to not have had its systems compromised following an ad touting the theft of 89 million records.

Major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has confirmed that fewer than 1% of its customers had their data compromised by threat actors who bribed its overseas customer service support agents for systems access, reports SiliconANGLE.

Conduent State & Local Solutions, Solutran, and Fidelity Information Services, all of which are electronic benefits vendors supporting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, have been sought by the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and Protect Democracy to reject the Department of Agriculture's requests to collect SNAP beneficiaries' personal information in adherence to a March order by President Donald Trump, StateScoop reports.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cancelled a proposed rule that would impose Fair Credit Reporting Act requirements on data brokers in a bid to better control the sale of Americans' personal information, according to The Hill.

U.S. small to mid-sized business-oriented recruitment platform HireClick had more than 5.7 million files inadvertently exposed by an unsecured Amazon AWS S3 storage bucket, according to Cybernews.