- Manpower says it discovered an incident at the end of 2024
- Nearly 145,000 people had sensitive files stolen
- Users need to take care of scams and identity theft activity
Staffing of gigantic labor has confirmed that it suffered a cyber attack by the end of 2024, where it lost sensitive data of nearly 145,000 people.
The company has lodged to the Maine Attorney General Office, which describes the violation, what it did to mitigate the threat and how it helped its victims to minimize the threat of follow -up attack.
In the form, it said it discovered the attack while examining an IT event on January 20, and noting, “Through this study we learned about information suggesting that an unknown actor gained unauthorized access to our network between December 29, 2024 and 12 January 2025 and potentially acquired certain files, some of which may have contained certain individuals personal information.”
Escalating privileges
“On July 28, 2025, Labor of Lansing learned that your personal information may have been involved in the incident, which is why this review.”
In total, 144,189 people have been influenced by the attack. Manpower did not say who was behind the incident or what type of information was stolen.
However, Bleeping computer Discovered that Ransomhub, a well -known ransomware group and extortion, assumed responsibility.
On their data cover website, Ransomhub said it stole about 500 GB of data, including client databases with personal and business information (pass scans, IDs, SSNs, addresses, contact information and more), a lot of business communication, accounting, confidential contracts, non-widespread and more.
However, the leaks also later removed labor from their site, which suggested that the company paid the demand for ransom. Meanwhile, affected customers were offered free credit monitoring and identity theft protection through Equifax.
