MOVEit victim count latest: 2.6K+ orgs hit, 77M+ people's data stolen

Quick show of hands: whose data hasn't been stolen in the mass exploitation of Progress Software's vulnerable MOVEit file transfer application? Anyone? According to security shop Emsisoft, 2,620 organizations and more than 77 million individuals have been impacted to date, with millions in the past week alone have received notifications that their info was either accessed, leaked, or both after the Russian ransomware gang Clop exploited a security hole in MOVEit back in May to steal files from compromised instances. Embarrassingly antivirus biz Avast is among these new-ish victims, which recently disclosed the crooks accessed some "low-risk customer personal information." "We take this seriously and are notifying impacted customers and offering dark web monitoring services free of charge," the developer xeeted on October 25. That free dark-web monitoring likely came in handy to the 3 million customers whose info has reportedly been leaked on a hacking forum. According to the UK's Times, the information posted "is primarily limited to name and/or contact information, as well as information on the product you purchased from us. No banking details, credit card numbers or high-risk data such as login information or account details were taken." An Avast spokesperson declined to answer specific questions about the breach, though sent The Register the following statement: Our systems are secure and operational. We use MOVEit for internal file transfers and immediately remediated all...