Security News

43 million workers potentially affected in France Travail data breach
2024-03-18 08:29

French national unemployment agency France Travail and Cap emploi, a government employment service for people with disabilities, have suffered a data breach that might have exposed personal data of 43 million people. The agencies announced on Wednesday that an intrusion exposed data of jobseekers registered in the last 20 years, as well as those with a candidate profile on the sites.

French unemployment agency data breach impacts 43 million people
2024-03-14 13:32

France Travail has informed the country's data protection agency, the National Commission of Informatique and Liberties, which stated that up to 43 million people may be impacted. This data increases the risk of identity theft and phishing for the exposed individuals, so the agency recommends potentially impacted people to be particularly vigilant with emails, phone calls, and SMS they receive.

American Express credit cards exposed in third-party data breach
2024-03-04 13:38

American Express is warning customers that credit cards were exposed in a third-party data breach after a merchant processor was hacked. This incident was not caused by a data breach at American Express, but rather at a merchant processor in which American Express Card member data was processed.

American Express credit cards exposed in vendor data breach
2024-03-04 13:38

American Express is warning customers that credit cards were exposed in a third-party data breach after one of its service providers was hacked. In a data breach notification filed with the state of Massachusetts, American Express said that the breach occurred at one of its service providers used by their travel services division, American Express Travel Related Services Company.

Golden Corral restaurant chain data breach impacts 183,000 people
2024-02-29 22:14

The Golden Corral American restaurant chain disclosed a data breach after attackers behind an August cyberattack stole the personal information of over 180,000 people. "On or about August 15, 2023, Golden Corral experienced a data security incident that caused a temporary disruption to our corporate operations," Golden Corral said.

20 million Cutout.Pro user records leaked on data breach forum
2024-02-29 15:56

Pro has suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of 20 million members, including email addresses, hashed and salted passwords, IP addresses, and names. On Tuesday, someone using the alias 'KryptonZambie' shared a link on the BreachForums hacking forum to CSV files containing 5.93 GB of data stolen from Cutout.

Insomniac Games alerts employees hit by ransomware data breach
2024-02-23 18:56

Sony subsidiary Insomniac Games is sending data breach notification letters to employees whose personal information was stolen and leaked online following a Rhysida ransomware attack in November. In December, Sony said they were investigating the Rhysida ransomware gang's claims that they breached Insomniac Games and stole over 1.3 million files from its network.

Integris Health says data breach impacts 2.4 million patients
2024-02-13 19:28

Integris Health has reported to U.S. authorities that the data breach it suffered last November exposed personal information belonging to almost 2.4 million people. Unless Integris Health met the attacker's demands, the stolen data would be sold to other cybercriminals on January 5, 2024.

Bank of America warns customers of data breach after vendor hack
2024-02-12 23:32

Bank of America is warning customers of a data breach exposing their personal information after one of its service providers was hacked last year.While Bank of America has yet to disclose how many customers were impacted by the data breach, Infosys McCamish Systems, the vendor that had its systems compromised, revealed in a recent filing with the Attorney General of Maine that 57,028 had their data exposed in the incident.

Data breach at French healthcare services firm puts millions at risk
2024-02-06 18:36

French healthcare services firm Viamedis suffered a cyberattack that exposed the data of policyholders and healthcare professionals in the country. Though the company's website remains offline at the time of writing, an announcement was posted on LinkedIn warning of the data breach.