The state of Missouri's low-income Medicaid program through the Department of Social Services is responsible for offering medical insurance to Missourans in need. The program ensures that citizens have access to reliable healthcare with minimal costs to them. The University of Missouri, or Mizzou, is a public research institute that was founded in 1839 and serves as Missouri's largest university. Both of these programs were attacked in the recent MOVE-it data breach.

UMass Chan Medical School is a public medical school located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The school was founded in 1962 and is part of the University of Massachusetts college system. The school is one of the few medical school locations in the United States with FDA approval to manufacture vaccinations. It serves a small number of students but handles important tasks while offering highly specialized training to its students.

Tesla, an Austin-Texas-based automaker specializing in electric vehicles, employs more than 127,000 workers worldwide today. The automaker has an annual revenue of 53.8 Billion USD and is a significant company that employees rely on to protect their data. Recently, two Tesla employees gave away information that resulted in a breach that could significantly impact workers.

The Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System is a retirement and benefits program administered to many full-time employees throughout the state. If you are an employee within the state of Tennessee, there's a good chance that your data is tied up in this system and that you're relying on the program administrators to protect your personal and financial information.

Financial institutions and state government agencies were the main targets of hackers this week. Major organizations like Bank of America and Hospitality Staffing Solutions were hit hard resulting in huge data losses for citizens, and the states of Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Tennessee each experienced major data losses in their regulatory bodies or programs. Learn more about each of these serious data breaches and find out if your information is safe.

Ernst and Young is one of the leading consulting companies that helps with strategic and transactional taxes. The company offers excellent services to other major companies and handles a large amount of financial and personal data for all the customers impacted by them. This organization works with major clients like Bank of America, which is now more than 11,000 Bank of America customers were exposed in a recent data breach involving this company.

When it comes to analyzing your attack surface, you’re probably assessing vulnerabilities, monitoring your firewall, tracking email security, and managing your identity and access management. But there is one part of the attack surface that often gets overlooked, and for that reason threat actors are targeting it with increased frequency, causing it to jump to the top of the initial access methods list: the human element.

The Pennsylvania Child Care Works program helps low-income families pay for their childcare costs. The program offers a portion of the childcare payment amount, and the families pay the rest. This system helps citizens throughout Pennsylvania get access to quality childcare. To qualify to use the system, applicants must fill out paperwork containing personal and financial information. This data is used to verify that they meet all the requirements of the program.

Hospitality Staffing Solutions is a short-term employment provider or temp agency that sends workers to a variety of hospitality-related organizations. Companies such as restaurants, hotels, colleges, casinos, senior living, and some light industrial establishments rely on workers provided by the company. The organization employs over 10,000 people and earns an estimated $4.3 billion in revenue annually.

The Vitality Group, LLC, a business-to-business vendor that provides employee benefit services to GuidePoint Security, experienced a security vulnerability on May 30, 2023 relating to the third-party file transfer program called MOVEit. The zero-day vulnerability became known in established security networks and channels late on May 31, 2023, and was specifically picked up and identified by internal Vitality security personnel on June 1, 2023.