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Personal Information Compromised in Universal Music Data Breach 

Universal Music Group is informing hundreds of individuals about a recent data breach impacting personal information. 

Universal Music Group is informing hundreds of individuals about a recent data breach impacting their personal information. 

According to information shared by the media giant with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, unauthorized activity was discovered in an internal application in early July. 

An investigation showed that an unauthorized third party acquired “data that potentially contained personal information”, including names and Social Security numbers.

The company says that while it has no evidence that the information has been misused, it has decided to offer impacted individuals 24 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services. 

Universal Music told the Maine AGO that 680 individuals are impacted, but shared no other information about the incident. 

No ransomware group appears to have taken credit for the attack, but these types of cybercrime gangs only name and shame victims that have not paid a ransom, therefore a ransomware attack cannot be ruled out. 

SecurityWeek has reached out to Universal Music for additional information and will update this article if the company responds. 

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Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.

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