TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

TransUnion suffered a Salesforce-based data breach exposing reportedly over 13 million records (4.4 million US records), including names, contact details, dates of birth, transaction reasons, and unredacted Social Security Numbers; the theft is linked to a series of Salesforce data-theft/extortion incidents attributed to groups such as ShinyHunters and UNC6395, and TransUnion is offering 24 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.