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Alabama credit union warns customers of data breach that leaked SSNs, financial info
Heritage South Credit Union in Alabama this week confirmed it notified an undisclosed number of people about a February 2025 data breach that compromised Social Security numbers and financial account info. Ransomware gang Embargo claimed responsibility for the breach on February 14, 2025, saying it stole 300 GB of data from Heritage South. The group says it stole debit card…
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Pennsylvania education union data breach hit 500,000 people
The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), the largest public-sector union in Pennsylvania, is notifying over half a million individuals that attackers stole their personal information in a July 2024 security breach. The union represents over 178,000 education professionals, including teachers, support staff, higher education personnel, nurses, retired educators, and future teachers. “PSEA experienced a security incident on or about July…
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Google faces new labor board complaint over contractor union bargaining
The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a fresh complaint against Google, alleging that the company acts as the employer of certain contract workers and must negotiate with their union, Reuters reports. The Board has said Google is a “joint employer” for roughly 50 San Francisco-based content creators hired through IT contractor Accenture Flex. These workers, who joined…
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Nebraskan credit union notifies over 52K people of data breach following ransomware attack
Liberty First Credit Union is notifying 52,496 people of a data breach following a cyber attack in September 2024. Ransomware group RansomHub added the Nebraskan credit union to its data leak site at the time after allegedly stealing 254GB of data. In its notification, the credit union confirms that: “On September 17, 2024, we discovered that an unknown, unauthorized third…
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Why You Should Join a Credit Union Instead of a Bank
When you think about money—saving it, paying bills with it, earning interest on it—you probably think of a bank. Or possibly Scrooge McDuck swimming in a pool filled with gold coins—but probably a bank. The average person in this country has more than five bank accounts, after all, despite the fact that banks aren’t always the best or friendliest places…
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Patelco Credit Union increases ransomware data breach figure to over 1M people
At the end of last week, Patelco Credit Union issued an updated data breach notification on the Maine AG website. In this revised notice, it increased the number of people affected from 726,000 to 1,009,472. This follows a ransomware attack via RansomHub in June 2024. This makes this ransomware attack the eighth largest this year so far based on records…
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Pennsylvania credit union notifies 99K people of data breach that compromised SSNs
First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union over the weekend confirmed it notified 98,809 people about a June 2024 data breach that compromised names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and account numbers. Ransomware gang Meow claimed responsibility for the attack. The group posted 400 GB of allegedly stolen data for sale at a price of $100,000 on its leak site, which…
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