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Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants | TechCrunch
The private equity giant confirms a breach, weeks after Google researchers said hackers were targeting financial companies.
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Apollo confirmed hackers stole employee PII via social engineering attacks on cloud systems in July. The incident is part of a coordinated extortion campaign targeting PE/fintech giants, signaling that social engineering defeats advanced controls and represents the primary risk for financial sector orgs.
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