sounds fake. why is nobody else reporting this or the companies themselves?

This isn't fake and it's week old news. I am surprised there hasn't been more noise. Usually I get my news from here, but this came down through the security guy at work.

Possibly because the companies weren't actually "hacked":

> The data is believed to have been stolen using a type of malicious software called infostealer malware

Here we go again. This is always fun working in IT when news like this breaks. It's why I'm so thankful for Hacker News.