"Five Cyberattacks in One Day Expose 150K US Residents to Data Risk"

Five organizations reported data breaches to the Maine Attorney General's Office in one day. Village Bank, Sysco, Collins Electrical Construction, Kline & Specter, and Puma Biotechnology were the five entities that disclosed data breaches on May 17. The five cyberattacks impacted nearly 150,000 people in the US. However, there could be some overlap in cases where victims suffer from two or more separate breaches. Sysco was by far the worst affected, as it reported 126,243 victims whose names and other Personally Identifying Information (PII), including Social Security numbers, were exposed in a cybersecurity incident carried out by a threat actor on January 14, 2023. As is often the case with system infiltrations, the target organization did not discover this until March 5. Kline & Specter, the second-worst affected company, had the same type of client information exposed to cybercriminals in what it described as a ransomware attack on March 13 in which some personal data may have been copied. In regard to the number of victims, Village Bank (3,324), Puma Biotechnology (1,933), and Collins Electrical (567) fared relatively well, although they, along with Sysco and Kline, all emphasized that they are treating the attacks seriously. This article continues to discuss the five cyberattacks recently disclosed to the Maine Attorney General's Office. 

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