InfoSec News Nuggets 7/3/2024

Prudential Data Breach Victim Count Soars to 2.5M  After initially disclosing a data breach in February to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it said was not materially impacting, Prudential Financial has updated its notice with a revised total number of affected residents — a number staggeringly higher than anticipated. More than 2.5 million individuals have been compromised by this data breach attack, rather than the 36,000 the insurance company originally said were affected. The stolen information includes…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 09/16/2022

Proton and DuckDuckGo want Congress to approve tech antitrust reform ‘as soon as possible’ More than a dozen smaller tech companies, including Proton and DuckDuckGo are urging lawmakers to pass comprehensive antitrust legislation “as soon as possible.” For them, passing the bill would kill two birds with one stone, allowing lawmakers to address anti-competitive conduct and privacy failures in one go.  In a letter to top congressional leaders on Tuesday, executives from a dozen smaller tech…
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