"2.5M Genworth Policyholders and 769K Retired California Workers and Beneficiaries Affected by Hack"
The country’s largest public pension fund says the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of about 769,000 retired California employees and other beneficiaries was among data stolen by Russian cybercriminals in the breach of a popular file-transfer application. It blamed the breach on a third-party vendor that verifies deaths. The same vendor, PBI Research Services/Berwyn Group, also lost the personal data of at least 2.5 million Genworth Financial policyholders, including Social Security numbers, to the same criminal gang. The breach of the MOVEit file-transfer program, discovered last month, is estimated by cybersecurity experts to have compromised hundreds of organizations globally.
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