Military and police agencies in Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru had nearly 10GB of emails and data exposed by hacking group Guacamaya as part of its cyber campaign against Latin American regulatory agencies and mining and oil firms since March, CyberScoop reports.
New York-based emergency medical services provider Empress EMS confirmed suffering a data breach impacting nearly 319,000 individuals following a ransomware attack in July, reports BleepingComputer.
Major moving and storage rental firm U-Haul International confirmed that some of its customers' rental contracts have been accessed following a cyberattack, resulting in the compromise of their names and driver's license or state identification numbers, BleepingComputer reports.
A study published in JAMA analyzing 414 abortion clinic websites found nearly all (99%) use third-party trackers, many of which were found to transfer user data.
Former Twitter CISO Peiter "Mudge" Zatko said the company has seen foreign agents from China, India and Saudi Arabia placed inside the company but does not have the infrastructure in place to track other potential insider threats.
The Register reports that former U.S. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Ambassador and Federal Communications Commission Executive Karen Kornbluh has warned about the national security risk concerning the massive proliferation of Americans' data.
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