IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

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.

Data Privacy 104

Data Privacy Insurance Manufacturing Retail 104

IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

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. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. million customers’ data.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? TB Paysign, Inc.

Data Privacy 79

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 79

IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Known data breached Pure Incubation Ventures Source (New) Professional services USA Yes 183,754,481 EasyPark Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Software Sweden Yes 21,100,000 Cutout.Pro Source (New) Software Hong Kong Yes 19,972,829 Optum Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 6 TB Kumagai Gumi Group Co.,

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 52

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Edinburgh mental health clinic in probe after client information accessed in scam (unknown) Iranian Hackers Hit H&M Israel (unknown) South Africa’s VirginActive goes offline after cyber attack (unknown) B.C.

Data breaches 125

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 125

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold.

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

With 117 publicly reported security incidents, October 2020 is the leakiest month we’ve ever recorded. The good news is that those data breaches and cyber attacks accounted for just 18,407,479 breached records. million) Personal data from eatigo accounts accessed in a security incident (2.8 million).

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Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Healthcare 141