Cybernews reports that Serasa Experian, the Brazilian subsidiary of credit risk and fraud prevention firm Experian, had 1.8 TB of data belonging to 223 million individuals, which is larger than the Brazilian population, claimed to have been stolen by a threat actor.
The stolen data, reportedly offered for sale, is said to contain simulations and schematics of aircraft, missiles, and bombs, originating from top organizations like the Aviation Industry Corporation of China and the National University of Defense Technology.
This bet stems from the ongoing debate about when quantum computers will become powerful enough to decrypt data secured by legacy algorithms, a threat that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been preparing for with the development of post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Cybernews reports that more than 40 million SMTP records, including email addresses and traffic metadata from leading corporations DHL, L'Oreal, Renault, and Hermes, have been inadvertently exposed by French email solutions firm Alinto as a result of an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster.
Eurail B.V., the company managing European rail passes, has disclosed that 308,777 American individuals had their data stolen following a December cyberattack, which was claimed to have led to the theft of 1.3 TB of data in February, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Grupo Bancolombia and Banco De Bogota, two of the leading banks in Colombia, were claimed to have been compromised by the same threat actor, who also exposed data supposedly stolen from the financial entities' systems on DarkForums, according to Cybernews.
