You may recall Apollo is majorly involved in AI infrastructure financing; it even is one of the “compute is an asset class” consortium. Sounds like the hackers stole a bunch of the usual things, like employees’ social security numbers. If they stole interesting things, like internal data on the AI deals Apollo has been making, that wasn’t disclosed in the breach notification. If you know anything about the hack, hit me up on Signal: lopatto.46. [Link: Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants | TechCrunch | https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/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.

Apollo Global Management confirmed a social engineering data breach exposing Social Security numbers, part of a broader hacking campaign