Data Security

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.

TechCrunch reports that APIsec, an API security testing company, had its customers' data and other sensitive information dating back to 2018 inadvertently exposed by a misconfigured internal database, which was immediately secured upon the identification of UpGuard researchers earlier last month.

U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point has minimized an alleged breach by the threat actor "CoreInjection," who claimed exfiltrating the company's internal project documents, user credentials, internal network maps, source code and proprietary software binaries, and employee contact information from its systems, reports Hackread.

Fifty-six percent of 270 U.S. appellate court judges may have had their personal details available on data broker sites, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Hackread reports that X, formerly known as Twitter, had over 2.8 billion individuals' profile data exposed on Breach Forums by the threat actor "ThinkingOne," who claimed the information to have been stolen by a former employee amid widespread layoffs at the U.S. social media firm.

Numerous healthcare providers across the U.S. had their patient data compromised following an attack against the legacy data migration servers of major healthcare software-as-a-service firm Oracle Health, previously known as Cerner, initially discovered late last month, reports BleepingComputer.

Australian artificial intelligence-based dealership finance platform Vroom by YouX, previously known as Drive IQ, had 27,000 records with sensitive information exposed by an unprotected Amazon AWS S3 bucket, which has since been secured by the company, Hackread reports.