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The research lab says in breach notification letters filed with the Maine Attorney General's Office this week that the attackers exfiltrated the data of 45,047 current and former employees, as well as their dependents and spouses. "The event did not impact INL's own network, or other networks or databases used by employees, lab customers or other contractors. The breach only impacted the cloud-based Oracle HCM test environment that resides off-site."INL said.

An official review of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's August data breach has revealed the full extent of the impact on staff. At the time of the data breach disclosure, the PSNI said no staff members were being relocated, but the review revealed that one officer decided to relocate themselves and their family out of concern for their safety.

Cold storage and logistics giant Americold has confirmed that over 129,000 employees and their dependents had their personal information stolen in an April attack, later claimed by Cactus ransomware.The April network breach led to an outage affecting the company's operations after Americold forced it to shut down its IT network to contain the breach and "Rebuild the impacted systems."

Toyota Financial Services is warning customers it suffered a data breach, stating that sensitive personal and financial data was exposed in the attack. Toyota Financial Services, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, is a global entity with a presence in 90% of the markets where Toyota sells its cars, providing auto financing to its customers.

Kentucky health system Norton Healthcare has confirmed that a ransomware attack in May exposed personal information belonging to patients, employees, and dependents. "On May 9, 2023, Norton Healthcare discovered that it was experiencing a cybersecurity incident, later determined to be a ransomware attack," it said in a press release published on Friday.

In October, a threat actor attempted to sell 23andMe customer data and, after failing to do so, leaked the data for 1 million Ashkenazi Jews and 4.1 million people living in the United Kingdom. 23andMe told BleepingComputer that the data was obtained through credential stuffing attacks to breach customer accounts.

Japanese car maker Nissan is investigating a cyberattack that targeted its systems in Australia and New Zealand, which may have let hackers access personal information. Details of the attack have not been published but the company informed customers of its Nissan Oceania division of a potential data breach, warning them that there is a risk of scams in the upcoming days.

Discount store chain Dollar Tree was impacted by a third-party data breach affecting 1,977,486 people after the hack of service provider Zeroed-In Technologies. Dollar Tree is a discount retail company that operates the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores in 23,000 locations in the United States and Canada.

Discount store chain Dollar Tree was impacted by a third-party data breach affecting 1,977,486 customers after the hack of service provider Zeroed-In Technologies. Dollar Tree is a discount retail company that operates the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores in 23,000 locations in the United States and Canada.

Okta has admitted that the number of customers affected by its October customer support system data breach is far greater than previously thought. In the process of figuring out how the mistake came to be, it also identified additional reports accessed by the attackers, including employee information and the contact details of all Okta certified users and some Okta Customer Identity Cloud customers.