Data Security

U.S. safety and location services firm Life360 has confirmed the compromise of its Bluetooth tracking service subsidiary Tile's customer support platform, resulting in attempted data extortion, reports BleepingComputer.

U.S. multinational data broker Verisk has taken down its offering that provides reports based on driver behavior patterns received from automakers that are then sold to insurers months after General Motors was exposed for selling such information, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

U.S. all-flash storage provider Pure Storage has confirmed having telemetry data for customer support services exfiltrated following a breach of its Snowflake data analytics environment, reports The Register.

TechCrunch reports that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the UK's Information Commissioner's Office have partnered to conduct a joint probe into last year's massive data breach at 23andMe, which resulted in the compromise of sensitive information belonging to 6.9 million users.

Major U.S. internet, phone, and TV service provider Frontier Communications had data from 751,895 individuals, including names and Social Security numbers, compromised following an April cyberattack by the RansomHub ransomware operation, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Threat actors have launched a new phishing campaign targeting Spanish-speaking individuals with an updated Agent Tesla malware variant, Hackread reports.

Officials at the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is the U.S.'s second-largest public school district, have announced an ongoing investigation into a breach claimed by a threat actor to have resulted in the compromise of more than 11 GB of data being sold for $1,000 on a hacking forum, according to BleepingComputer.