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Sensitive data about 45,000 New York City public school students — as well as information about staff and school service providers — were compromised in a worldwide cyberattack, city education officials said Friday. The attackers targeted a vulnerability in the popular file-transfer software MOVEit, which New York public schools has used to share documents and data internally and with ...

Both said a third-party vendor, PBI Research Services, was affected in a data theft hack, providing a path for the hackers to then steal data from Calpers and Genworth. Calpers said on June 6, 2023, PBI told them of a “vulnerability” in their MOVEit Transfer software that allowed hackers to download “our data” without specifying how many people were impacted.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, 2023--Traceable AI, the industry’s leading API security company, today announced that it has been selected from amongst multiple API Security vendors by Globe, to strengthen its API security capabilities. Only recently, selected providers in the global telecommunications industry have reported large scale data breaches as a direct result of exposed APIs. This partnership showcases the value of cybersecurity in an important but vulnerable field.

The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel.

Ransom-seeking hackers have increasingly turned a greedy eye toward the world of managed file transfer (MFT) software, plundering the sensitive data being exchanged between organizations and their partners in a bid to win big payouts. Governments and companies globally are scrambling to deal with the consequences of a mass compromise made public on Thursday that was tied to Progress Software Corp's MOVEit Transfer product. In 2021 Accellion Inc's File Transfer Appliance was exploited...

The Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Surveillance Act would block the transfer of data to countries deemed high-risk to U.S. national security.

All those with a Louisiana state-issued driver’s license, ID, or car registration have likely had data exposed in the MOVEit breach.

On June 2, the Connecticut state legislature passed an amended version of Senate Bill 3 (“SB 3”), a bill containing provisions imposing new requirements related to consumer health data...

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On March 15, 2023, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office announced the finalization of the Regulations implementing the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), which will take effect on July 1,...