Tag: Identity Theft

University of Pennsylvania Unclaimed Breach Details Organisation: University of Pennsylvania (Penn)Incident date: October 31, 2025Nature of incident: Mass-fraudulent email campaign purporting a data breach; hacker claims of data theft under investigation.Status: Investigation ongoing; school says no confirmed core systems breach yet.Reported by: multiple sources, including The Daily Pennsylvanian, TechCrunch, Bleeping Computer, Rescana, The Record, and… Continue reading

Security services firm Verisure (via its Swedish subsidiary Alert Alarm) revealed a breach of a third-party billing vendor system in Sweden. Around 35,000 current or former customers saw their names, addresses, email addresses, and personal identity numbers (Swedish “personnummer”) exposed. Verisure claims its own systems remain uncompromised. The incident highlights how vendor systems can become… Continue reading

Prosper (Prosper Marketplace / Prosper Funding LLC), a San Francisco–based online lending platform, disclosed a significant cybersecurity incident in September 2025 that exposed customer and applicant data, including U.S. Social Security numbers (SSNs), and impacted an estimated 17.6 million unique email addresses. What Happened? According to Prosper’s SEC 8-K filing and follow-up statements, an unauthorized third party accessed internal systems… Continue reading