$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack
24-08-2026 13:29 via theregister.com

$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack

Apollo Global Management has admitted that attackers talked their way into its cloud systems and got their hands on Social Security numbers and other personal information. The investment giant disclosed the breach in a notification filed with California's attorney general, saying it had suffered a "social engineering incident" that resulted in unauthorized access to "certain cloud platforms" between July 6 and July 10. Apollo isn't saying which cloud platforms were compromised, how the attackers
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