Goldman Sachs clients connected to certain alternative investment funds and separately managed accounts have had their data, including SSNs, exposed in a third-party data breach.
Fried Frank, a law firm partnered with Goldman Sachs for external counsel, experienced the breach after system vulnerabilities were targeted by cybercriminals, giving them unauthorized access to highly sensitive documents and PII. The known compromised information includes names, contact and demographic information, SSNs and other government identification numbers, birth dates, and financial account information, but other information may have been compromised as well including addresses, banking information, and more.
It has not yet been confirmed how many people have been affected, but investigation is ongoing and a class action lawsuit has been filed against Fried Frank, claiming that the company enabled the breach by not having reasonable cybersecurity measures in place.
(– Source: Claim Depot
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A database belonging to WIRED (wired.com) has alledgedly been leaked after a hacker posted claims of hacking Condé Nast on a hacking forum.
The hacker, going by the alias “Lovely” claims to have obtained 2.3 million subscriber records from the WIRED database and an additional 40 million Condé Nast property records. In the post, “Lovely” claimed that Condé Nast does not care about the security of their users’ data.
(–Source: Bleeping Computer
Read More: Hacker claims to leak WIRED database with 2.3 million records )
Trust Wallet’s Google Chrome extension has been hacked, forcing a temporary removal of the extension from the Chrome Web Store as the company works to install a critical security update and clean up the fallout for victims affected by the Christmas Day attack.
A malicious version of the Chrome browser extension was distributed on the Chrome Web Store after it appeared legitimate and passed Chrome’s review process. This compromised extension gave hackers the ability to access wallet information and carry out unauthorized transactions. This only affected users who installed version 2.68 of the extension and logged into their wallets from December 24th through December 26th.
(–Source: Cryptonews on Yahoo! Finance
Read More: Trust Wallet Goes Dark on Chrome – $7M Hack Victims Left Waiting for Claims Tool )
