Massive Pension Fund Hack Impacts Nearly 770K Retired California Workers.

The personal information of about 769,000 retired California employees and other beneficiaries, including Social Security numbers, was among data stolen by Russian cybercriminals in the breach of a popular file-transfer application. The California Public Employees Retirement system blamed the breach on a third-party vendor that verifies deaths. The same vendor, PBI Research Services/Berwyn Group, also lost the personal data of at least 2.5 million Genworth Financial policyholders, including Social Security numbers, to the same criminal gang, according to the Fortune 500 insurer. The criminal gang behind the hack, known as Cl0p, is extorting victims, threatening to dump their data online if they don’t pay up.