Hightower Holding Data Breach Impacts 130,000
2026-03-26T19:24:06Z•9eea639723029f25264ede8712acd42f7f0b14cc6ff7141ea4d54e82d92c408f
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What happened
SecurityWeek roundup: Hightower Holding disclosed a data breach affecting ~130,000 people with theft of names, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers. BIND maintainers released high-severity patches addressing specially crafted domains that trigger out-of-memory conditions and memory leaks in resolvers. A state-sponsored Chinese actor was found with kernel implants and passive backdoors deep in telecom backbone infrastructure enabling long-term espionage. Cisco released patches for multiple high- and medium-severity IOS vulnerabilities (DoS, secure-boot bypass, information-disclo
Why it matters
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- 2026-03-26T19:24:06Z
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