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Fintech banking platform Hatch Bank has reported a data breach after hackers stole the personal information of almost 140,000 customers from the company's Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing platform. As reported by TechCrunch, data breach notifications sent to impacted customers and filed with Attorney General's offices warned that hackers exploited a vulnerability in the GoAnywhere MFT software to steal the data of 139,493 customers.

Stanford University disclosed a data breach after files containing Economics Ph.D. program admission information were downloaded from its website between December 2022 and January 2023. Last week, the university sent data breach notification letters to those who submitted personal and health information as part of the graduate application to its Department of Economics, informing them that their info was accessed without authorization.

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The healthcare provider giant said on Monday that Fortra issued an alert saying that it had "Experienced a security incident" leading to some CHS data being compromised. A subsequent investigation revealed that the resulting data breach affected the personal and health information of up to 1 million patients.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC suffered a data breach caused by a network intrusion that resulted in the installation of information-stealing malware and the extraction of data from its IT systems.Pepsi Bottling Ventures is the largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola beverages in the United States, responsible for manufacturing, selling, and distributing popular consumer brands.

The California-based networking hardware manufacturer 'A10 Networks' has confirmed to BleepingComputer that the Play ransomware gang briefly gained access to its IT infrastructure and compromised data.A10 Networks specializes in the manufacturing of software and hardware application delivery controllers, identity management solutions, and bandwidth management appliances, while it also offers firewall and DDoS threat intelligence and mitigation services.

Multiple medical groups in the Heritage Provider Network in California have suffered a ransomware attack, exposing sensitive patient information to cybercriminals. The entities collectively issued a notice of data breach at the start of the month and shared a sample letter with the California Attorney General's office earlier this week.

The Weee! Asian and Hispanic food delivery service suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of 1.1 million customers.On Monday, a threat actor named 'IntelBroker' began leaking the data for Weee! on the Breached hacking and data breach forum.

A Sydney man has been sentenced to an 18-month Community Correction Order and 100 hours of community service for attempting to take advantage of the Optus data breach last year to blackmail its customers. The unnamed individual, 19 when arrested in October 2022 and now 20, used the leaked records stolen from the security lapse to orchestrate an SMS-based extortion scheme.

PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database containing the info of millions of customers. TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate are subscription-based services allowing customers to perform background checks on other people.