StateScoop reports that New York City has limited access to its payroll system for more than a week now following the discovery of an SMS phishing, or smishing, campaign, which sought to facilitate personal data theft.
BleepingComputer reports that IxMetro PowerHost, a Chile-based data center and hosting provider, had its VMware ESXi servers and backups compromised by a novel SEXi ransomware attack during the weekend, which has resulted in website and service disruptions.
Data allegedly stolen from a breach of U.S. federal technology consulting firm Acuity, which was claimed to include communications between the Five Eyes Intelligence Group composed of the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, and other U.S. allies, has been leaked by IntelBroker, Hackread reports.
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Five new automated privacy management solutions have been added by Microsoft to its Priva service in a bid to bolster organizations' adherence to personal data privacy requirements, SiliconAngle reports.
Billions of records with personal information gathered from U.S. users of Google Chrome will be removed by Google to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging illegal surveillance practices, reports The Associated Press.
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