Data Security

Officials of the Palau government have dismissed claims by the DragonForce ransomware operation alleging the theft of more than 21GB of data from the island nation's systems, which it threatened to leak by Wednesday, as well as ongoing negotiations between both parties, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Operations at global mobile accessories manufacturer Targus have been interrupted by a cyberattack targeted at its file servers last week, according to BleepingComputer.

U.S. consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates had information from 341,650 individuals initially obtained by the Department of Justice as part of a civil litigation compromised following a cyberattack against its systems last May, Security Affairs reports.

Security pros say threat actors could use the leaked data to run phishing attacks that would steal Home Depot corporate credentials and launch ransomware attacks.

Technology firms would be subjected to online data collection restrictions under a new bipartisan and bicameral draft online privacy bill unveiled by Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Reuters reports.

Acuity has disclosed that only old and non-sensitive data had been stolen from its breached GitHub repositories amid an ongoing U.S. State Department probe into IntelBroker's claims regarding the theft and exposure of U.S. government and military information exfiltrated from the federal technology consulting firm's systems, BleepingComputer reports.

Hackread reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had data from almost 8.5 million individuals exposed following a major data breach claimed to have been conducted by threat actor USDoD.