Tag: PII

Hertz disclosed a breach affecting over a million people across Hertz, Dollar, and Thrifty brands. The root cause? Zero-day vulnerabilities in a third-party file transfer platform.

DISA Global Solutions runs background checks for tens of thousands of companies. The breach happened in April 2024. They didn't notify the 3.3 million affected people until February 2025.

PowerSchool serves over 60 million students across the U.S. and Canada. In January, attackers got in using compromised credentials to a support platform. That's it. One password.

Hot Topic just handed hackers a 730 GB database with nearly 57 million customer records. The asking price on the hacker forum? $20,000.

In the era of digital transformation, organizations amass an unprecedented volume of data, which often includes both regulated data (PII, SOX, HIPAA, CCPA, UCPA, etc) and valuable intellectual property (IP). Ensuring the visibility and proper classification of this data is crucial for compliance, risk management, and safeguarding corporate assets.