In October, consumer financing company 700Credit experienced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 5.8 million Americans who underwent credit checks at auto, RV, and marine dealerships throughout the country.
Over 20,000 US dealerships have been affected, as this breach targeted a partner API used by these dealerships. The breach occured in late October and lasted 2 days, compromising customer names, birth dates, addresses, and SSNs in the process.
700Credit is offering victims a free year of credit monitoring services and is in the process of reviewing its internal policies to prevent similar events in the future.
(–Source: Cybernews
Read More: 700Credit notifies customers SSNs exposed | Cybernews )
One of the most widely used password managers, LastPass, has been fined $1.6 million by the UK Commissioner’s Office over the 2022 data breach on the password manager that affected 1.6 million people in the UK alone.
The UK Commissioner’s Office says that LastPass failed to “implement sufficiently robust technical and security measures, which ultimately enabled a hacker to gain unauthorized access to its backup database.” Despite lack of evidence that hackers were able to decrypt the stolen passwords, LastPass has been accused of failing to protect user data.
(–Source: Forbes
Read More: LastPass Data Breach — 1.6 Million Users Exposed By Security Failure )
Earlier this year, healthcare billing company Conduent fell victim to one of the largest healthcare data breaches of all time, with 10.5 million people affected.
Given Conduent’s industry and services provided, the company has access to sensitive personal data belonging to people all over the world, including SSNs. While not every person affected by the breach may have had their SSN leaked, many did.
(–Source: Mashable on MSN
Read More: Conduent data breach exposed data of 10.5 million people, including Social Security numbers )
This week, both Google and Apple released security updates after their users had been targeted by a hacking campaign involving hackers exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities.
(–Source: TechCrunch
Read More: Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks | TechCrunch )
