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Manpower Lansing Franchise Notifies 144,189 Individuals of Data Theft

Free Equifax monitoring follows RansomHub’s removal of the leak entry for the breach confined to Manpower’s independent Lansing franchise.

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Overview

  • The Lansing franchise detected unauthorized access between December 29, 2024 and January 12, 2025 and filed breach notices with the Maine Attorney General before notifying affected individuals.
  • ManpowerGroup confirms the incident was isolated to the independently operated Lansing office and did not compromise corporate systems on separate data platforms.
  • RansomHub claimed to have stolen roughly 500 GB of personal and corporate files in January and subsequently removed the Manpower entry from its dark-web leak site.
  • All 144,189 impacted people are being offered free Equifax credit monitoring and identity theft protection services.
  • Manpower has bolstered its IT security, engaged external cybersecurity experts and is cooperating with the FBI in the ongoing investigation.