The attackers accessed basic identification details, contact information, national identity numbers, contract details, and payment information, including IBANs.
An unknown threat actor created multiple repositories on Gitea, a self-hosted Git service, purportedly containing portions of Target's internal code and developer documentation.
The California Privacy Protection Agency has banned Texas-based marketing firm Rickenbacher Data LLC, which operates as Datamasters, from selling Californians' personal data after peddling information from millions of individuals with medical conditions for targeted advertising purposes, BleepingComputer reports.
The University of Hawaii has disclosed an August ransomware intrusion that compromised Cancer Center study participants' personal data, including their Social Security numbers, only last month, which is way past the 20-day breach reporting deadline under state law, reports The Associated Press.
BleepingComputer reports that Instagram has refuted allegations that information from over 17 million accounts has been compromised, as it addressed a security issue that was exploited to facilitate a mass delivery of password reset emails.
The leaked database, containing metadata for 323,986 users, was published on shinyhunte.rs, a site previously used to host data from various corporate breaches.
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