Privacy

The records were taken in a cyberattack against a firm providing support services for a Justice Department court case.

U.S. consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates had information from 341,650 individuals initially obtained by the Department of Justice as part of a civil litigation compromised following a cyberattack against its systems last May, Security Affairs reports.

Technology firms would be subjected to online data collection restrictions under a new bipartisan and bicameral draft online privacy bill unveiled by Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Reuters reports.

Hackread reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had data from almost 8.5 million individuals exposed following a major data breach claimed to have been conducted by threat actor USDoD.

The North American accommodation group is still investigating the impact of the Easter weekend disruptions.

More than 4.4 million SurveyLama users had their data compromised following a breach impacting the French-owned survey rewards platform in February, SecurityWeek reports.

China, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have been subjected to attacks by suspected Vietnamese threat operation CoralRaider, which involved the delivery of the QuasarRAT variant dubbed RotBot and the XClient information-stealing malware, since May, reports The Hacker News.

AT&T has been hit with a deluge of class-action lawsuits after confirming following a series of denials the legitimacy of data belonging to 73 million customers, including 7.6 million current account holders, which was initially published by ShinyHunters in 2021 before being exposed again by MajorNelson last month, BleepingComputer reports.