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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2023 – 4.3 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our April 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Meanwhile, if you enjoy this sort of cyber security news, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest stories straight to your inbox. Biggest data breaches of April 2023 1. million people.

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Half of EDR Tools, Organizations Vulnerable to Clop Ransomware: Researchers

eSecurity Planet

Cymulate ran 3,107 assessments across 340 organizations recently to see if security controls were adequate against the Clop (sometimes called “Cl0p” with a zero) ransomware group’s exploitation of a MOVEit software vulnerability ( CVE-2023-34362 ). Endpoint Security: Install and update antivirus software on all hosts.

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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

The new law goes into effect on January 1, 2023. The new law also expressly does not apply to any: financial institution or data subject to Gramm- Leach-Bliley Act); covered entity or business associate governed by HIPAA; nonprofit organization; or. But first, you need to determine whether the law applies to your business.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Cybernews’s research team discovered the MongoDB server in December 2023 and contacted Glosbe. Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data.

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

IT Governance

We’ll also soon publish our 2023 review of publicly disclosed incidents and records known to be breached across the year, as well as our quarterly report, so keep an eye on our blog. billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 Data breached: >151,000,000 records.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight More than 70 million email addresses added to Have I Been Pwned The security researcher Troy Hunt has added more than 70 million email addresses from the Naz.API data set to his Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service. VF Corporation confirms 35.5