Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants

Apollo Global Management confirmed a cloud data breach in which attackers used social engineering between July 6–10 to access systems and steal personal information including names, birth dates, contact details, addresses, and Social Security numbers; the intrusion fits a wider extortion campaign targeting private equity and financial firms (actors labeled Falcon/Helix/Pink/Redact) that steal data via credential/MFA phishing and then extort victims for payment.