Data Security

T-Mobile has explained that only a single account had been compromised in a recent insider breach amid uncertainty that the '1' individual noted to be affected in a filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General was merely a placeholder, SecurityWeek reports.

The cyberattack occurred on March 27, with the party confirming a network compromise shortly after. While Die Linke stated that its membership database was not affected, attackers reportedly aimed to publish internal party data and personal information of employees at the party headquarters.

Texas-based Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital had personal and medical information from 257,073 patients stolen following a cyberattack in January, Cybernews reports.

Brokk, a leading Swedish global remote-controlled demolition machinery manufacturer, had a 4 GB dataset allegedly stolen from its systems exposed by the Russia-linked Play ransomware operation, which threatened to leak all pilfered data should it refuse to fulfill the demanded ransom, reports Cybernews.

At least 29 other European Union entities were disclosed by CERT-EU to have had their data compromised following the TeamPCP supply chain attack against the European Commission's Amazon cloud environment, reports BleepingComputer.

The exposed data included unencrypted driver's licenses, passports, and other identity verification documents, along with selfies and personal information such as names and home addresses.

A digital forensics investigator, identified only as TR, was called in when a client suspected a rival had infiltrated their systems after a data breach.