Privacy

More than 33 million individuals across France, or almost half of the country's population, were confirmed by the country's data protection authority CNIL to have had their data compromised following data breaches at French healthcare and insurance services providers Viamedis and Almerys last month, according to BleepingComputer.

Major California-based union Service Employees International Union Local 1000 has disclosed having its network disrupted by a cyberattack last month, which the LockBit ransomware operation claimed to have resulted in the theft of 308GB of data, including employees' salary details, financial documents, and Social Security numbers, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

The U.S. Credit Union Service has exposed more than 3 million records as a result of a misconfigured cloud database suspected to be a customer relationship management system of Michigan-based credit union service provider CU Solutions Group, Hackread reports.

Two different data privacy bills are under consideration in Maine, one of which could be the most robust data privacy legislation across the U.S. should it be passed by state legislature, reports StateScoop.

Major U.S. insurance firms Bankers Life and Casualty Company and Washington National Insurance Company disclosed having data from more than 66,000 customers stolen following a SIM swapping attack in November, according to Hackread.

Mobile peer-to-peer class notes sharing platform LectureNotes Learning App had more than 2.1 million users' records exposed as a result of a misconfigured MongoDB database, which has since been addressed, reports Cybernews.

Google has agreed to pay $350 million to resolve a shareholders lawsuit from 2018 concerning a vulnerability in its discontinued Google Plus platform, which resulted in third-party exposure of data belonging to millions of users, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Mozilla has unveiled its new Monitor Plus subscription service that facilitates the automated scanning and removal of personal information from data broker sites, reports TechCrunch.