Reuters reports that a whistleblower has accused Elon Musks tech team, US DOGE Service, of potentially causing a serious data breach at the National Labor Relations Board, compromising sensitive case files.
U.S. business services firm Conduent, which is also a leading government IT contractor, has reported the theft of data belonging to a limited number of its customers following a cyberattack that disrupted its operations in January, according to BleepingComputer.
TechCrunch reports that major U.S. multinational car rental company Hertz has confirmed that data from its customers in the U.S. and other parts of the world had been compromised in a Clop ransomware attack against vulnerable Cleo managed file transfer software instances between October and December.
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Washington state-based diagnostic testing services provider Laboratory Services Cooperative, which mainly caters to Planned Parenthood centers in 31 states, had information from 1.6 million individuals exfiltrated following a data breach in October, reports Security Affairs.
Dutch information services firm Wolters Kluwer which counts American Airlines, BP, Boeing, and other Fortune 500 firms among its clients had its systems claimed to have been compromised in a cyberattack, which allegedly resulted in the theft of personal data, according to Cybernews.
The U.S. is moving to better curtail China, Russia, Iran, and other nation-state adversaries' utilization of commercial backdoors to pilfer Americans' highly sensitive data with the new Data Security Program, which took effect on Tuesday, Cybernews reports.
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