The University of Michigan had data from its students, applicants, alumni, employees, donors, patients, and research study participants compromised after its network was breached in late August, according to BleepingComputer.
Subjecting payment systems around the world to a catastrophic cyberattack could result in a $3.5 trillion loss in global gross domestic product over a five-year period, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Spain's third-largest airline Air Europa had its customers' credit card information compromised following a cyberattack against its systems, according to BleepingComputer.
The District of Columbia Board of Elections has disclosed that 600,000 lines of voter records have been compromised in an attack by the RansomedVC ransomware operation against its website hosting provider, CyberScoop reports.
BleepingComputer reports that Michigan-based Flagstar Bank had personal data from 837,390 customers across the U.S. stolen after its third-party mobile banking and payment processing provider Fiserv was impacted by the widespread MOVEit hack by the Cl0p ransomware operation, which has already compromised more than 64 million individuals across 2,000 organizations around the world.
Data scraping attack against 23andMe hits 1.3M Major U.S. biotechnology and genetic testing firm 23andMe was discovered by a security researcher to have had data from more than 1.3 million Ashkenazi Jew and Chinese users compromised in a data scraping incident, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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