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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

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Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Source (New) Manufacturing Canada Yes 1.2 TB At least two South Korean defence companies and three other South Korean companies Source (New) Defence and unknown South Korea Yes 1.2

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

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Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Unprotected Real Estate Wealth Network database exposes more than 1.5 billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 billion records containing property ownership data related to millions of people.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

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The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. Organisation name Sector Location Data exfiltrated? The Act aims to improve the cyber security of digital products across the EU by introducing mandatory cyber security requirements for all hardware and software.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

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Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Source New Telecoms USA Yes 6,158 Nabholz Construction Company Employee Welfare Health Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 5,326 Dawson James Securities, Inc. North Hill Home Health Care, Inc.,

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

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The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. In the meantime, if you missed it, check out last week’s round-up. Please do also let us know what you think about our new table format.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 January 2024

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At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compromised data includes victims’ names, addresses, phone numbers and Aadhaar numbers (a 12-digit government identification number).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 11 – 18 December 2023

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An investigation determined that personal data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account numbers, belonging to nearly 15 million people was obtained by an unauthorised party between 30 October and 1 November. Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals.