The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service has included information for more than 26 million individuals affected by a recent hack targeting The Post Millennial, a conservative Canadian online news magazine, BleepingComputer reports.
Brisbane-based mortgage lender Firstmac has become the latest Australian business to be targeted by cybercriminals, warning customers that it suffered a data breach a day after the new Embargo cyber-extortion group leaked over 500 GB of data, including sensitive customer data such as names, addresses, email credentials, and bank details, reports Cyber Daily.
More than 538,000 Ohio Lottery players have had their names and Social Security numbers compromised in a Christmas Eve data breach revealed this week in a regulatory filing by the state lottery, The Register reports.
California-based online mental health provider BetterHelp was noted by the Federal Trade Commission to have begun distributing refunds part of the $7.8 million settlement for alleged data privacy violations to nearly 800,000 individuals, reports The Associated Press.
Hackread reports that IntelBroker has exposed sensitive data allegedly stolen from major UK-based international financial services firms Barclays and HSBC following a purported attack against a third-party contractor last month that was conducted along with Sanggiero.
University System of Georgia, which manages the state's higher education institutions, disclosed that 800,000 individuals across the state had their information compromised in late May as a result of the widespread MOVEit file transfer system hack conducted by the Cl0p ransomware operation, The Register reports.
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