Transunion Says Hackers Stole 4.4 Million Customers’ Personal Information

Credit reporting elephantine TransUnion has disclosed a information breach affecting much than 4.4 cardinal customers’ individual information.

In a filing pinch Maine’s lawyer general’s office connected Thursday, TransUnion attributed nan July 28 breach to unauthorized entree of a third-party exertion storing its customers’ individual data.

TransUnion claimed “no in installments accusation was accessed,” but provided nary contiguous grounds for its claim. The information breach announcement did not specify what circumstantial types of individual information were stolen.

David Blumberg, a spokesperson for TransUnion, did not instantly remark erstwhile contacted by TechCrunch.

TransUnion is 1 of nan largest in installments reporting agencies successful nan United States, and stores nan financial information of much than 260 cardinal Americans. It’s nan latest U.S. firm elephantine to person been hacked successful caller weeks pursuing a activity of hacks targeting the insurance, retail, and transportation and hose industries. 

Several companies, including Google, Allianz Life, Cisco,and HR elephantine Workday, reported information breaches of customer information stored successful their Salesforce-hosted unreality databases. Following its breach, Google attributed nan hacks to an extortion group known arsenic ShinyHunters.

It’s not clear who is down nan breach astatine TransUnion, aliases if nan hackers made immoderate demands to nan company.