California-based data security technology provider Cohesity has revealed plans to purchase Veritas Software's data protection unit for $7 billion, in a deal that is poised to be finalized by the latter part of this year, reports CRN.
TechCrunch reports that Oklahoma-based casino and hotel resort WinStar had its customers' sensitive data inadvertently leaked by an exposed database owned by Nevada software startup Dexiga, which developed the casino resort giant's My WinStar app.
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has noted that more aggressive actions will be taken by the agency against data misuse by big tech companies after it was sued by Meta to reverse a rule preventing the monetization of children's information, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
More than 33 million individuals across France, or almost half of the country's population, were confirmed by the country's data protection authority CNIL to have had their data compromised following data breaches at French healthcare and insurance services providers Viamedis and Almerys last month, according to BleepingComputer.
Major California-based union Service Employees International Union Local 1000 has disclosed having its network disrupted by a cyberattack last month, which the LockBit ransomware operation claimed to have resulted in the theft of 308GB of data, including employees' salary details, financial documents, and Social Security numbers, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Major U.S. insurance firms Bankers Life and Casualty Company and Washington National Insurance Company disclosed having data from more than 66,000 customers stolen following a SIM swapping attack in November, according to Hackread.
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