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.
TechRadar reports that increased cybersecurity investments have not prevented 67% of companies from experiencing data breaches over the past 24 months.
Hackread reports that U.S. college sports scholarship and recruitment assistance platform PrepHero had more than 3.1 million records belonging to high school athletes and their coaches inadvertently exposed by a misconfigured database.
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