Data Security

Hackread reports U.S. ticket sales and distribution firm Ticketmaster has been confirmed by its parent firm Live Nation Entertainment to have been subjected to a data breach days after ShinyHunters commenced the sale of data from 560 million users allegedly stolen from the company's systems.

More than 900 of almost 2,300 official government email addresses belonging to politicians of Great Britain, France, and European Parliament have been exposed on the dark web, mostly impacting British senior government and opposition members, whose email addresses appeared over 2,100 times, SecurityWeek reports.

Hackread reports that Clarity.fm, an on-demand business advice marketplace for entrepreneurs, had 155,531 records and 121,000 accounts belonging to entrepreneurs, business leaders, and celebrities exposed as a result of an unsecured database.

Hackread reports that Santander Bank was claimed to be attacked by the ShinyHunters threat operation weeks after the major global financial entity confirmed having been impacted by a third-party data breach that mostly impacted customers in Chile, Uruguay, and Spain.

U.S. enterprise risk intelligence and crisis management software provider Everbridge has confirmed having its corporate systems breached following an attack leveraging information obtained from a previous phishing campaign against its employees, according to BleepingComputer.

U.S.-based IT software providers for the industrial and research sectors, European energy firms, and Asian pharmaceutical entities have been subjected to data exfiltration attacks by advanced persistent threat operation LilacSquid as part of a cyberespionage campaign that commenced in 2021, according to The Hacker News.

UK public service broadcaster BBC had information from nearly 25,290 current and former employees exfiltrated following a data breach of its occupational pension scheme, which is one of the largest across the country, according to The Guardian.