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SecureFact – Cyber Security News – Week of September 01, 2025

TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

  • Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion suffered a major data breach exposing personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States.
  • The breach occurred on July 28, 2025, and was discovered two days later.
  • The incident involved unauthorized access to TransUnion’s Salesforce account by the Shiny Hunters extortion group.
  • The stolen data includes over 13 million records, with 4.4 million related to US customers.
  • Compromised information contains names, billing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and unredacted Social Security Numbers.
  • The breach also exposed customer support tickets and messages stored in Salesforce.
  • TransUnion is offering 24 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to affected individuals.
  • The company has notified relevant authorities and is cooperating with law enforcement in the investigation.

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Google warns Salesloft breach impacted some Workspace accounts

  • Google reported that the Salesloft Drift breach was larger than initially thought, with attackers using stolen OAuth tokens to access Google Workspace email accounts.
  • The campaign, tracked as UNC6395, involved theft of OAuth tokens from Salesloft’s Drift AI chat integration with Salesforce.
  • Threat actors used these tokens to access customer Salesforce instances and execute queries against Cases, Accounts, Users, and Opportunities tables.
  • On August 9, attackers utilized compromised ‘Drift Email’ integration tokens to access email of a small number of Google Workspace accounts.
  • The stolen tokens have been revoked and affected customers notified. Google disabled the integration between Salesloft Drift Email and Google Workspace during investigation.
  • The company urges all Drift users to treat authentication tokens as compromised and rotate credentials.
  • Salesforce has disabled Drift integrations with Salesforce, Slack, and Pardot until investigation completion.

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MATLAB dev says ransomware gang stole data of 10,000 people

  • MathWorks, developer of MATLAB mathematical simulation software, revealed that a ransomware gang stole data of 10,476 individuals after breaching its network in April 2025.
  • The company discovered the incident on May 18, more than one month after attackers gained access.
  • The breach disrupted access to internal systems and online applications including multi-factor authentication, account SSO, MathWorks cloud center, file exchange, license center, and online store.
  • Stolen information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security Numbers, and other national identification numbers depending on the individual.
  • The company serves over 100,000 organizations and more than 5 million customers worldwide.
  • MathWorks has not revealed the ransomware operation behind the breach, and no gang has publicly claimed responsibility.
  • The company has engaged with law enforcement and is providing affected individuals with identity protection services. Investigation continues to determine full scope of compromised data.

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Healthcare Services Group data breach impacts 624,000 people

  • Healthcare Services Group, a publicly traded company providing support services to healthcare facilities, alerted over 624,000 individuals of a security breach.
  • The company detected unauthorized access to its network on October 7, 2024, discovering the intrusion began on September 27, 2024.
  • Investigation revealed attackers accessed and copied files between September 27 and October 3, 2024.
  • Compromised data varies per individual and includes full names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, state identification numbers, financial account information, and account access credentials.
  • The organization has annual revenue of $1.7 billion and provides strategic services to thousands of healthcare facilities nationwide.
  • HSGI offers 12-24 month credit monitoring and identity theft protection services depending on data exposure severity.

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Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers

  • French multinational retailer Auchan suffered a cyberattack exposing sensitive data of several hundred thousand customers’ loyalty accounts.
  • The breach compromised personal information including full names, titles, client status, postal addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and loyalty card numbers.
  • Auchan operates over 2,100 branches across 13 countries in Europe and Africa, employs 154,000 people, and has annual revenue exceeding $35 billion.
  • The company confirmed that bank data, passwords, and PIN numbers were not impacted in the breach.
  • Auchan has notified the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) about the incident and is sending breach notifications to affected customers.
  • The retailer advises customers to remain vigilant for phishing attacks leveraging stolen information.
  • The company emphasizes it will never request login details, passwords, or PIN codes via email, SMS, or phone.
  • This breach follows similar incidents at other major French entities including Air France, KLM, Orange, and Bouygues Telecom, though no coordinated campaign has been confirmed.

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