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Privacy authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom have launched a joint investigation to assess the scope of sensitive customer information exposed in last year's 23andMe data breach. The joint investigation will also examine if 23andMe alerted affected individuals and the privacy regulators as required by Canadian and UK privacy and data protection laws.
British auction house Christie's is notifying individuals whose data was stolen by the RansomHub ransomware gang in a recent network breach. While Christie's didn't name the attackers behind the May breach, the RansomHub gang added the auction house to its dark web leak portal, claiming it had breached its systems and stolen sensitive client data.
Frontier Communications is warning 750,000 customers that their information was exposed in a data breach after an April cyberattack claimed by the RansomHub ransomware operation. "On April 14, 2024, we detected unauthorized access to some of our internal IT systems," reads the data breach notification sent to impacted customers.
Frontier Communications is warning 750,000 customers that their information was exposed in a data breach after an April cyberattack claimed by the RansomHub ransomware operation."On April 14, 2024, we detected unauthorized access to some of our internal IT systems," reads the data breach notification sent to impacted customers.
Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions now says over 3.2 million people have been impacted by a data breach that occurred in February. In late April, the firm reported that roughly 1.9 million people in the U.S. had sensitive personal information compromised in a data breach incident on February 14, 2024.
Live Nation has confirmed that Ticketmaster suffered a data breach after its data was stolen from a third-party cloud database provider, which is believed to be Snowflake."On May 20, 2024, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. identified unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment containing Company data and launched an investigation with industry-leading forensic investigators to understand what happened," Live Nation shared in a Friday night SEC filing.
Personal information of current and former BBC employees has been exposed in a data breach that affected the broadcaster's in-house pension scheme."On the 21 May, the BBC's information security team alerted us to a data security incident, in which some files containing personal information of BBC Pension Scheme members records were copied from a cloud-based data storage service used by our administration team," the BBC Pension and Benefits Centre said.
Computer hardware manufacturer Cooler Master has confirmed that it suffered a data breach on May 19, allowing a threat actor to steal customer data. The threat actor also shared data samples, allowing BleepingComputer to confirm with numerous customers listed in the breach that their data was accurate and that they recently requested support or an RMA from Cooler Master.
Computer hardware manufacturer Cooler Master has confirmed that it suffered a data breach on May 19, allowing a threat actor to steal customer data. The threat actor also shared data samples, allowing BleepingComputer to confirm with numerous customers listed in the breach that their data was accurate and that they recently requested support or an RMA from Cooler Master.
The BBC has disclosed a data security incident that occurred on May 21, involving unauthorized access to files hosted on a cloud-based service, compromising the personal information of BBC Pension Scheme members. As per the reports, the incident impacted roughly 25,000 people, including current and former employees of Britain's national public service broadcaster.